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Date:      Wed, 2 Mar 2016 10:10:11 +0000
From:      Joe Holden <mail@m.jwh.me.uk>
To:        "Lundberg, Johannes" <johannes@brilliantservice.co.jp>, John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
Cc:        FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Bay Trail 32bit UEFI
Message-ID:  <56D6BC03.2040508@m.jwh.me.uk>
In-Reply-To: <CAASDrV=qpUaco4dPWqu7kGw55ve3wYyMS5bgyauTO12gXcpRNw@mail.gmail.com>
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On 02/03/2016 01:45, Lundberg, Johannes wrote:
> CherryTrail devices/boards with 64bit UEFI are already out. Upgrading
> the hardware is one solution (I did).
>
I'm thinking of the sticks etc, they all have 32bit UEFI and no 
CSM/legacy boot, but have 64bit cpus

> I never did try FreeBSD on BayTrail but for running Linux on BayTrail I
> used special built Grub that was 32bit but could load 64bit OS. Could
> this kind of Grub boot a 64bit FreeBSD, I wonder?
>
I looked at this but honestly it looked like a giant nightmare - I did 
get grub loading on a test platform (tablet, for display etc) but didn't 
manage to make it boot anything
>
> On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 5:20 PM, John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org
> <mailto:jhb@freebsd.org>> wrote:
>
>     On Sunday, February 28, 2016 07:00:06 AM Joe Holden wrote:
>     > Hi all,
>     >
>     > Apologies if this is the wrong list...
>     >
>     > Is there any plan to support booting FreeBSD on 32bit UEFI systems (with
>     > or without 64bit kernel/userland)? Obviously there is no i386 efi loader
>     > currently so neither is possible...
>
>     I don't think anyone is actively working on it.  I think it shouldn't be
>     that much work once the i386 loader is resurrected.  The i386 kernel
>     just
>     needs to use the EFI memory map and I think the rest of it should
>     generally
>     just work.
>
>     --
>     John Baldwin
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