Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2012 10:22:13 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug Ambrisko <ambrisko@ambrisko.com> To: Eric McCorkle <eric@shadowsun.net> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GSoC: EFI on intel Message-ID: <201204031722.q33HMD6u051412@ambrisko.com> In-Reply-To: <4F7A1301.4060900@shadowsun.net>
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Eric McCorkle writes: | I'm assessing possible summer of code projects, and the EFI work caught | my attention. I've been running FreeBSD on a macbook for a little under | a year now, and booting on EFI is definitely an interest to me. Does | anyone know if this is still a viable project proposal? I certainly | have the skills to undertake it, I just want to make sure that it stands | a chance of actually being selected. EFI is a good task. For generic PC's we need an X64 format. The current version in FreeBSD is IA32 format. The X64 can boot i386/amd64. Qemu can be used to test both IA32 and X64 formats. I added some notes about this on the wiki at: http://wiki.freebsd.org/IdeasPage#EFI_support_for_FreeBSD.2BAC8-i386_and_FreeBSD.2BAC8-amd64_.28GSoC.29 Qemu is nice since it can runs an UEFI BIOS via the OVMF project and emulate a DOS file system by pointing qemu to a directory. So then it is easy to build something, toss it into a directory, start qemu and test. Thanks, Doug A.
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