From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 3 17:33:56 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B5C971065672 for ; Tue, 3 Apr 2012 17:33:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from eric@shadowsun.net) Received: from mail.atlantawebhost.com (dns1.atlantawebhost.com [66.223.40.39]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5EDF38FC16 for ; Tue, 3 Apr 2012 17:33:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 9575 invoked from network); 3 Apr 2012 13:33:55 -0400 Received: from c-76-119-101-151.hsd1.ma.comcast.net (HELO ?192.168.1.2?) (76.119.101.151) by mail.atlantawebhost.com with SMTP; 3 Apr 2012 13:33:55 -0400 Message-ID: <4F7B347B.6000400@shadowsun.net> Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2012 13:33:47 -0400 From: Eric McCorkle User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:10.0.3) Gecko/20120318 Thunderbird/10.0.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Doug Ambrisko References: <201204031722.q33HMD6u051412@ambrisko.com> In-Reply-To: <201204031722.q33HMD6u051412@ambrisko.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.4 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enigD7372AA69EB025FDEEDF8B30" X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GSoC: EFI on intel X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2012 17:33:56 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enigD7372AA69EB025FDEEDF8B30 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------060308050004040005090806" This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------060308050004040005090806 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 04/03/12 13:22, Doug Ambrisko wrote: > EFI is a good task. For generic PC's we need an X64 format. The curre= nt > 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_a= nd_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. I'm drafting an application right now. I emailed the listed contacts (Rui Paulo and Andrey Elsukov) a moment ago. I've done background research on this already, as part of getting FreeBSD to work on Mac hardware. QEMU caught my attention as a testbed. Also, I found out Apple EFI implementations are non-standard.=20 They specifically look for an HFS+ partition and load a specific file.=20 The workaround is pretty simple, of course: just wrap the boot loader in an HFS+ image and write it to a partition reserved for that purpose. Anyway, if I'm going to propose this, I need to list possible mentors.=20 Skill-wise, I'm well equipped to take it on. I anticipate needing someone who's a committer, preferably with good knowledge of the kernel sources. --=20 Eric McCorkle Computer Science Ph.D Student eric@shadowsun.net --------------060308050004040005090806-- --------------enigD7372AA69EB025FDEEDF8B30 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (FreeBSD) iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJPezSCAAoJENSCzbQ+koZ7pocQAIwuy6EPX08VZ2xPLzn7rsMt /2g7MLPqVnSk39lUUBt5eC2iMVO7aM8sK7GHxoZd8nSFLz/loUIw+9wXH2QP+Arx gx96UCDgYrYJkGgRBhJ1y/YJkHm9lSYJw0PxjtlveegcfAhsvRPRb+FGt5a393oe CSjFtK9laupZaAdqFwpnaWtd3aaOucSQ5ahJiiHOg74dUIyz+NB0jc4DgZ2y7Jn1 dYh6GpJUD2hbTqm24vnaoLn+g/kn1LvEOLUI0qYE/rZnlFg3HaeinJf9YmBd1x2p 8U1C9OAbwgIDM25n6spqfyzjRBUSKrhfakatOmIPMfidv43vUdPBvrRUJ5NX2Juj Xg76vgJXvDjThPKadwHiiNQrJ8llqlEZSSE9iP/JsL6xsNeP06RZSwZcruzX+AXm DaF0Xy16QH2MPJC9t1L2yEVyXZEveVgryN1On0no5uzREUOLeFFD2KpNKx/zZwvH thlAAFu07s5DxRrS0smtYl5lnIk02eCdVccUH1w8AxTIZGqEzYf2MQu+7p5DXfWJ Cu2dv+M4nG9NwWvXRHsl+TyXi0LWGN1ffpEUHdDmi4PO0E20EGOiz7lFW5Qeda82 4D5WD8+vRpIj7GyrHF4e+OZdLZkHROk9mbs20411ib0hmba52tE3q+IveeEX75vJ BIj2dF+QPk0P0k4k4ghv =d6Vv -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enigD7372AA69EB025FDEEDF8B30--