On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 12:24 AM, Rebecca Cran
wrote:
On 9/19/18 3:53 AM, Greg V wrote:
Yes, of course it was 64-bit.
I don't think I ever downloaded the 32-bit one...
And are you sure it was booted via EFI and not the BIOS emulation CSM
(Compatibility Support Module)? I'm fairly sur
I still have it all in the queue, just the paid work is taking its toll and
then FreeBSD and illumos :)
Next week I am on vacation trip but then I’ll be back and kicking.
Rgds,
Toomas
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> On 20 Sep 2018, at 02:37, Warner Losh wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Sep 19, 2018 at 4:33 P
> On 9/19/18 3:53 AM, Greg V wrote:
>
> >
> > Yes, of course it was 64-bit.
> >
> > I don't think I ever downloaded the 32-bit one...
>
>
> And are you sure it was booted via EFI and not the BIOS emulation CSM
> (Compatibility Support Module)? I'm fairly sure we _don't_ support
> booting a 64-
>
> On 9/19/18 9:06 AM, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:
> > Yes, that is one of the catagories of rare, a EFI-32 bit system that
> > was originally shipped with a 32 bit only CPU, that later got upgraded
> > in the field with a 64 bit CPU, that still runs a EFI-32 bios.
> > Are you sure the 2007 firmware
On Wed, Sep 19, 2018 at 4:33 PM Rebecca Cran wrote:
> Oh, that's a really good point - thanks! I happen to have a Minnowboard
> Turbot currently sitting unused.
>
One other idea, unrelated to the 32-bit UEFI to boot 64-bit kernel, is to
see about mining tsoome@'s port of FreeBSD boot loader to O
On 9/19/18 5:13 PM, Ed Maste wrote:
The Minnowboard Turbot has an Atom E3826, and has four precompiled
Tianocore UEFI firmware releases available: 32 and 64 bit in release
and debug builds. It's probably the most approachable development
platform for UEFI work on FreeBSD.
Oh, that's a really
On 19 September 2018 at 10:34, Rodney W. Grimes
wrote:
>
> You would be hard pressed to find a system with a 64 bit CPU that
> could run 64 bit FreeBSD that had a 32 bit EFI implementation.
The Minnowboard Turbot has an Atom E3826, and has four precompiled
Tianocore UEFI firmware releases availab
On 9/19/18 3:53 AM, Greg V wrote:
Yes, of course it was 64-bit.
I don't think I ever downloaded the 32-bit one...
And are you sure it was booted via EFI and not the BIOS emulation CSM
(Compatibility Support Module)? I'm fairly sure we _don't_ support
booting a 64-bit kernel from 32-bit EF
On 9/19/18 9:06 AM, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:
Yes, that is one of the catagories of rare, a EFI-32 bit system that
was originally shipped with a 32 bit only CPU, that later got upgraded
in the field with a 64 bit CPU, that still runs a EFI-32 bios.
Are you sure the 2007 firmware is EFI32? I woul
> On 19 Sep 2018, at 18:31, Rodney W. Grimes
> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Sep 19, 2018 at 6:06 PM, Rodney W. Grimes
>> wrote:
On Wed, Sep 19, 2018 at 5:34 PM, Rodney W. Grimes
wrote:
>> On 9/18/18 4:11 AM, Greg V wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> I can confirm that the kernel already
On Wed, Sep 19, 2018 at 6:31 PM, Rodney W. Grimes
wrote:
On Wed, Sep 19, 2018 at 6:06 PM, Rodney W. Grimes
wrote:
>> On Wed, Sep 19, 2018 at 5:34 PM, Rodney W. Grimes
>> wrote:
>> >> On 9/18/18 4:11 AM, Greg V wrote:
>> >>
>> >> >
>> >> > I can confirm that the kernel alre
> On Wed, Sep 19, 2018 at 6:06 PM, Rodney W. Grimes
> wrote:
> >> On Wed, Sep 19, 2018 at 5:34 PM, Rodney W. Grimes
> >> wrote:
> >> >> On 9/18/18 4:11 AM, Greg V wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >> >
> >> >> > I can confirm that the kernel already worked fine when booted
> >> from
> >> >> > 32-b
On Wed, Sep 19, 2018 at 6:06 PM, Rodney W. Grimes
wrote:
On Wed, Sep 19, 2018 at 5:34 PM, Rodney W. Grimes
wrote:
>> On 9/18/18 4:11 AM, Greg V wrote:
>>
>> >
>> > I can confirm that the kernel already worked fine when booted
from
>> > 32-bit EFI.
>> >
>> > I booted an old M
> On Wed, Sep 19, 2018 at 5:34 PM, Rodney W. Grimes
> wrote:
> >> On 9/18/18 4:11 AM, Greg V wrote:
> >>
> >> >
> >> > I can confirm that the kernel already worked fine when booted from
> >> > 32-bit EFI.
> >> >
> >> > I booted an old Mac into HardenedBSD using a 32-bit-EFI build of
> >>
On Wed, Sep 19, 2018 at 5:34 PM, Rodney W. Grimes
wrote:
On 9/18/18 4:11 AM, Greg V wrote:
>
> I can confirm that the kernel already worked fine when booted from
> 32-bit EFI.
>
> I booted an old Mac into HardenedBSD using a 32-bit-EFI build of
GRUB2 :)
Was that a 64-bit version
> On 9/18/18 4:11 AM, Greg V wrote:
>
> >
> > I can confirm that the kernel already worked fine when booted from
> > 32-bit EFI.
> >
> > I booted an old Mac into HardenedBSD using a 32-bit-EFI build of GRUB2 :)
>
>
> Was that a 64-bit version of FreeBSD? My understanding is the 32-bit
> FreeBSD
On 09/18, Rebecca Cran wrote:
On 9/18/18 4:11 AM, Greg V wrote:
I can confirm that the kernel already worked fine when booted from
32-bit EFI.
I booted an old Mac into HardenedBSD using a 32-bit-EFI build of GRUB2 :)
Was that a 64-bit version of FreeBSD? My understanding is the 32-bit
Free
On 9/18/18 4:11 AM, Greg V wrote:
>
> I can confirm that the kernel already worked fine when booted from
> 32-bit EFI.
>
> I booted an old Mac into HardenedBSD using a 32-bit-EFI build of GRUB2 :)
Was that a 64-bit version of FreeBSD? My understanding is the 32-bit
FreeBSD boots fine, but 64-bit
On Mon, Sep 17, 2018 at 11:09 PM, Konstantin Belousov
wrote:
That said, making only the loader->kernel transition from EFI 32bit to
64bit kernel should be not too hard, and even significantly simpler
than
to make 32bit EFI load 32bit kernel. amd64 kernels already aware that
there might be
On 17 September 2018 at 14:17, Warner Losh wrote:
> Items on my list are:
>
> (1) Retiring boot1.efi entirely before 13.0. It was originally designed to
> be a small, never changing blob we'd toss into an ESP and have all the
> smarts in loader.efi.
I'd go further than this: it was originally des
On Mon, Sep 17, 2018 at 12:17:25PM -0600, Warner Losh wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 16, 2018 at 11:29 PM Rebecca Cran wrote:
> I've had some interest on #bsdmips about booting a 64-bit FreeBSD on old
> > Apple systems that use 32-bit EFI: it sounds like it should be possible,
> > and is something I'd like
On Sun, Sep 16, 2018 at 11:29 PM Rebecca Cran wrote:
> On 9/16/18 9:32 PM, Warner Losh wrote:
>
> >
> > What did you have in mind working on? I have a few things that are in
> > various stages of completeness around this issue that I've not had
> > time to polish off for the tree. Some I'd like t
On 9/16/18 9:32 PM, Warner Losh wrote:
>
> What did you have in mind working on? I have a few things that are in
> various stages of completeness around this issue that I've not had
> time to polish off for the tree. Some I'd like to, but some may
> benefit from a fresh perspective. Also, there's
On Sun, Sep 16, 2018 at 4:31 PM Rebecca Cran wrote:
> I'm just getting back into FreeBSD development, and I'm trying to focus
> on (U)EFI work.
>
> It seems there are various things that people would like to have done,
> some of which are listed on
> https://wiki.freebsd.org/DevSummit/201806/Have
I'm just getting back into FreeBSD development, and I'm trying to focus
on (U)EFI work.
It seems there are various things that people would like to have done,
some of which are listed on
https://wiki.freebsd.org/DevSummit/201806/HaveNeedWant12 - and some of
which I know are already being worked on
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