Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2012 19:40:25 -0400 From: Eric McCorkle <eric@shadowsun.net> To: soc-status@FreeBSD.org Cc: "Andrey V. Elsukov" <ae@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Status report Message-ID: <4FCE98E9.7040302@shadowsun.net>
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I've had less time available this past week, but much of my efforts have been focused on gathering more information. I have been working on coming up with a plan for how to deal with the kernel being (possibly) non-contiguous in memory, due to the use of the EFI allocation functions. The more I investigate, the more attractive the solution of allocating the entire space for the kernel all in one request begins to seem. It certainly works as a temporary solution, but I'm at a loss to find any downside at this point. I will pose the question to hackers@ this week Aside from this, I've been experimenting with building and running simple "hello world" EFI programs on the TianoCore/QEMU platform, in order to gain more working knowledge. Lastly, I added some work in progress code that wraps a boot loader in an HFS+ filesystem so that an Apple machine will boot it. My plans for this week are to decide how to deal with the non-contiguous kernel issue, and to get to the point of running the i386 loader.efi on QEMU/TianoCore.
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