Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2023 09:57:32 +0000 From: bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org To: bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: [Bug 272731] Question on support booting 64-bit FreeBSD on a 64-bit CPU from a 32-bit EFI environment Message-ID: <bug-272731-227@https.bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/>
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https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3D272731 Bug ID: 272731 Summary: Question on support booting 64-bit FreeBSD on a 64-bit CPU from a 32-bit EFI environment Product: Base System Version: 13.2-RELEASE Hardware: amd64 OS: Any Status: New Severity: Affects Some People Priority: --- Component: misc Assignee: bugs@FreeBSD.org Reporter: lehmannwer@gmail.com After a long time I had another look at the page https://wiki.freebsd.org/U= EFI, where it still states "Support booting 64-bit FreeBSD on a 64-bit CPU from a 32-bit EFI environment" with status "Not Started". I would like to know if anybody is / will be working on that in the near fu= ture or not, as unfortunately I have a Notebook that comes with with an Intel At= om Baytrail CPU and a 32-bit EFI without the possibility of setting legacy BIOS mode and I would really love to install FreeBSD on that machine. That kind of CPU was sold quite a lot and there are a lot of other Notebooks with a 32-bit EFI, so it could be interesting for more people to see this feature implemented in FreeBSD. I don't know if it could make things easier if looking at the solution from NetBSD, which actually works since 9.3. (There, the installation media is recognized by the 32-bit EFI and the system boots until it shuts down later= for some other reason, but this must be a another problem of NetBSD). Also, I would be happy to do testing if somebody started the work. --=20 You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.=
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