Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2015 21:14:56 +0000 (UTC) From: Ed Maste <emaste@FreeBSD.org> To: doc-committers@freebsd.org, svn-doc-all@freebsd.org, svn-doc-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r47575 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status Message-ID: <201510152114.t9FLEuZV046439@repo.freebsd.org>
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Author: emaste (src committer) Date: Thu Oct 15 21:14:56 2015 New Revision: 47575 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/47575 Log: Add brief UEFI status update Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-07-2015-09.xml Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-07-2015-09.xml ============================================================================== --- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-07-2015-09.xml Thu Oct 15 20:57:30 2015 (r47574) +++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-07-2015-09.xml Thu Oct 15 21:14:56 2015 (r47575) @@ -787,6 +787,42 @@ </project> <project cat='misc'> + <title>UEFI Boot and Framebuffer Support</title> + + <contact> + <person> + <name> + <given>Ed</given> + <common>Maste</common> + </name> + <email>emaste@freebsd.org</email> + </person> + <person> + <name> + <given>Marcel</given> + <common>Moolenaar</common> + </name> + <email>marcel@freebsd.org</email> + </person> + </contact> + + <body> + <p>A number of UEFI bug fixes were committed over the last + quarter, improving compatibility with different UEFI + implementations. + This includes improvements to EFI's vt(4) framebuffer + driver, efifb, to handle systems with high resolution + displays and unusual framebuffer stride values. + In particular this improves compatibility with a large + number of recent Apple MacBook Pros and other Macs.</p> + </body> + <help> + <task>Test FreeBSD-CURRENT and FreeBSD-STABLE snapshots on + a variety of UEFI implementations.</task> + </help> + </project> + + <project cat='misc'> <title>The FreeBSD Foundation</title> <contact>
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