From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 15 00:16:50 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 41D288FF; Mon, 15 Sep 2014 00:16:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from c.mail.sonic.net (c.mail.sonic.net [64.142.111.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 27344B5E; Mon, 15 Sep 2014 00:16:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from comporellon.tachypleus.net (polaris.tachypleus.net [75.101.50.44]) (authenticated bits=0) by c.mail.sonic.net (8.14.9/8.14.9) with ESMTP id s8F0GfGX020032 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NOT); Sun, 14 Sep 2014 17:16:42 -0700 Message-ID: <541604F1.9010402@freebsd.org> Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2014 14:13:21 -0700 From: Nathan Whitehorn User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Eric McCorkle , sbruno@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Resuming old EFI project References: <54159AC5.1010800@metricspace.net> <1410716250.4174.3.camel@bruno> <5415F505.3070206@metricspace.net> In-Reply-To: <5415F505.3070206@metricspace.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Sonic-CAuth: UmFuZG9tSVbSd0KG+goNSrk6VZGvfrFb2crAcMSGAyFn5hKcNaLes8SSlAk6EQTDe/dL11/ebz7tJtFaDw4cqyvdsSBaD0QQb2ujJvKJw54= X-Sonic-ID: C;qJNNkW085BGWFTZXoK8kYw== M;IB7mkW085BGWFTZXoK8kYw== X-Spam-Flag: No X-Sonic-Spam-Details: 0.0/5.0 by cerberusd Cc: "freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org" X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2014 00:16:50 -0000 On 09/14/14 13:05, Eric McCorkle wrote: > On 09/14/2014 13:37, Sean Bruno wrote: >> There's been quite a bit of work in this space and people are already >> booting their laptops and such from the UEFI enabled boot loader. > > That's excellent. I had assumed nobody had worked on it. This will be part of 10.1, by the way. > >> What specifically are you looking to work on? >> > > Well, I had been trying to get it to boot on a mac EFI implementation > as well. There's some funny things that have to happen there > (notably, an HFS+ image). People seem to have had luck with our FAT32 EFI system partitions on macs so far, but this in general is one of the big missing bits: hunting down weird firmwares, testing them, and fixing them when they don't work. We also need the EFI boot1 both to (a) have a better algorithm for finding the right UFS partition to boot from and (b) learn how to boot from ZFS as well as UFS. > > I know there's also some secure booting features in EFI (my new laptop > supports them), not sure if anyone's done anything with them. > No one has done anything on this front yet, so far as I know. -Nathan