Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2014 14:13:21 -0700 From: Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> To: Eric McCorkle <eric@metricspace.net>, sbruno@freebsd.org Cc: "freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org" <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Resuming old EFI project Message-ID: <541604F1.9010402@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <5415F505.3070206@metricspace.net> References: <54159AC5.1010800@metricspace.net> <1410716250.4174.3.camel@bruno> <5415F505.3070206@metricspace.net>
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On 09/14/14 13:05, Eric McCorkle wrote: > On 09/14/2014 13:37, Sean Bruno wrote: >> There's been quite a bit of work in this space and people are already >> booting their laptops and such from the UEFI enabled boot loader. > > That's excellent. I had assumed nobody had worked on it. This will be part of 10.1, by the way. > >> What specifically are you looking to work on? >> > > Well, I had been trying to get it to boot on a mac EFI implementation > as well. There's some funny things that have to happen there > (notably, an HFS+ image). People seem to have had luck with our FAT32 EFI system partitions on macs so far, but this in general is one of the big missing bits: hunting down weird firmwares, testing them, and fixing them when they don't work. We also need the EFI boot1 both to (a) have a better algorithm for finding the right UFS partition to boot from and (b) learn how to boot from ZFS as well as UFS. > > I know there's also some secure booting features in EFI (my new laptop > supports them), not sure if anyone's done anything with them. > No one has done anything on this front yet, so far as I know. -Nathan
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