Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2014 19:39:50 +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: r45770 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status Message-ID: <201410101939.s9AJdonh055120@svn.freebsd.org>
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Author: emaste (src committer) Date: Fri Oct 10 19:39:49 2014 New Revision: 45770 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/45770 Log: Remove UEFI entry from wrong quarterly :( Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-04-2014-06.xml Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-04-2014-06.xml ============================================================================== --- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-04-2014-06.xml Fri Oct 10 19:14:27 2014 (r45769) +++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-04-2014-06.xml Fri Oct 10 19:39:49 2014 (r45770) @@ -553,77 +553,6 @@ </help> </project> - <project cat='kern'> - <title>UEFI Boot</title> - - <contact> - <person> - <name> - <given>Ed</given> - <common>Maste</common> - </name> - <email>emaste@FreeBSD.org</email> - </person> - - <person> - <name> - <given>Nathan</given> - <common>Whitehorn</common> - </name> - <email>nwhitehorn@FreeBSD.org</email> - </person> - </contact> - - <links> - <url href="https://wiki.freebsd.org/UEFI">&os; UEFI wiki page</url> - <url href="http://www.freebsd.org/snapshots/">&os; snapshots</url>; - </links> - - <body> - <p>The Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) provides - boot- and run-time services for x86 and other computers. For - the x86 architecture it replaces the legacy BIOS. This - project will adapt the &os; loader and kernel boot process for - compatibility with UEFI firmware, found on contemporary - servers, desktops, and laptops.</p> - - <p>Ed and Nathan completed a number of integration tasks over - the past three months. Nathan added a first-stage loader, - boot1.efi, to support chain-loading the rest of the system - from a UFS filesystem. This allows the UEFI boot process to - proceed in a similar fashion as with BIOS boot. Nathan also - added UEFI support to the &os; installer and release image - creation script.</p> - - <p>The EFI framebuffer requires the <tt>vt(4)</tt> system - console — a framebuffer driver is not implemented for - the legacy <tt>syscons(4)</tt> console. Ed added automatic - <tt>vt(4)</tt> selection to the UEFI boot path.</p> - - <p>Snapshots are now built as dual-mode images, and should boot - via both BIOS and UEFI. Our plan is to merge the UEFI and - <tt>vt(4)</tt> work to stable/10 to appear in &os; - 10.1-RELEASE.</p> - </body> - - <sponsor>The &os; Foundation</sponsor> - - <help> - <task>Document manual installation, including dual-boot - configurations.</task> - - <task>Implement boot1.efi for ZFS file systems.</task> - - <task>Add support for UEFI variables stored in non-volatile - memory (NVRAM).</task> - - <task>Debug boot failures with certain UEFI firmware - implementations.</task> - - <task>Support secure boot.</task> - </help> - </project> - <project cat='team'> <title>&os; Core Team</title>
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