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From: Doug Ambrisko <ambrisko@ambrisko.com>
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Subject: Re: GSoC: EFI on intel
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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.