Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2016 03:13:34 +0000 (UTC) From: Benjamin Kaduk <bjk@FreeBSD.org> To: doc-committers@freebsd.org, svn-doc-all@freebsd.org, svn-doc-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r48042 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status Message-ID: <201601170313.u0H3DYY0019723@repo.freebsd.org>
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Author: bjk Date: Sun Jan 17 03:13:34 2016 New Revision: 48042 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/48042 Log: Add entry on UEFI boot and framebuffer support, from emaste Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-10-2015-12.xml Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-10-2015-12.xml ============================================================================== --- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-10-2015-12.xml Sun Jan 17 03:09:22 2016 (r48041) +++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-10-2015-12.xml Sun Jan 17 03:13:34 2016 (r48042) @@ -2849,4 +2849,48 @@ </task> </help> </project> + + <project cat='proj'> + <title>UEFI Boot and Framebuffer Support</title> + + <contact> + <person> + <name> + <given>Ed</given> + <common>Maste</common> + </name> + <email>emaste@FreeBSD.org</email> + </person> + </contact> + + <body> + <p>A number of UEFI bug fixes were committed over the last + quarter, further improving compatibility with different UEFI + implementations. Specifically, on some implementations, &os; + failed to boot with an "ExitBootServices() returned + 0x8000000000000002" error. This has been fixed with a retry + loop (as required by UEFI), in r292515 and r292338.</p> + + <p>UEFI improvements from other developers have recently been + commited or are in progress. These include support for environment + variables set on the EFI loader command line, improved text console + mode setting, support for nvram variables, and root-on-ZFS + support.</p> + </body> + + <sponsor> + The FreeBSD Foundation + </sponsor> + + <help> + <task> + <p>Test &os;-CURRENT snapshots on a variety of UEFI + implementations.</p></task> + + <task> + <p>Merge UEFI changes to stable/10, for &os; + 10.3-RELEASE.</p> + </task> + </help> + </project> </report>
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