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Date:      Mon, 27 May 2019 22:53:42 +0100
From:      Edward Napierala <trasz@freebsd.org>
To:        Eric McCorkle <eric@metricspace.net>
Cc:        FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>,  "freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org" <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD and Coreboot
Message-ID:  <CAFLM3-rMJmPs4OvRczDtiENtYaSpODRGQaFuONc%2BouxchJQDxw@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon, 27 May 2019 at 16:14, Eric McCorkle <eric@metricspace.net> wrote:

[..]

> My plan is roughly this:
>
> * Refurbish the GRUB port, get it working again in QEMU (possibly on one
> of my machines), also possibly push a patch to GRUB to use the keybufs
> mechanism to pass in GELI keys.
>
> * Get coreboot with GRUB/Seabios booting FreeBSD in QEMU
>
> * Possibly create a coreboot port (uncertain how this would work, since
> Coreboot has its own extensive config menu)
>
> * Hold my breath and test it out on real hardware (I have a Librem 13 r1
> for this purpose)
>
> * Possibly try getting the FreeBSD kernel to work as a coreboot payload.

Out of curiosity - why the kernel and not loader(8)?



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