From owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org Wed Mar 2 01:29:17 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F54CAC0231 for ; Wed, 2 Mar 2016 01:29:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhb@freebsd.org) Received: from bigwig.baldwin.cx (bigwig.baldwin.cx [IPv6:2001:470:1f11:75::1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4147B1971 for ; Wed, 2 Mar 2016 01:29:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhb@freebsd.org) Received: from ralph.baldwin.cx (c-73-231-226-104.hsd1.ca.comcast.net [73.231.226.104]) by bigwig.baldwin.cx (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 515E9B972; Tue, 1 Mar 2016 20:29:16 -0500 (EST) From: John Baldwin To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Cc: Joe Holden Subject: Re: Bay Trail 32bit UEFI Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2016 17:20:34 -0800 Message-ID: <4073395.HnTjdCHcSr@ralph.baldwin.cx> User-Agent: KMail/4.14.3 (FreeBSD/10.2-STABLE; KDE/4.14.3; amd64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <56D29AF6.50401@m.jwh.me.uk> References: <56D29AF6.50401@m.jwh.me.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.7 (bigwig.baldwin.cx); Tue, 01 Mar 2016 20:29:16 -0500 (EST) X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2016 01:29:17 -0000 On Sunday, February 28, 2016 07:00:06 AM Joe Holden wrote: > Hi all, > > Apologies if this is the wrong list... > > Is there any plan to support booting FreeBSD on 32bit UEFI systems (with > or without 64bit kernel/userland)? Obviously there is no i386 efi loader > currently so neither is possible... I don't think anyone is actively working on it. I think it shouldn't be that much work once the i386 loader is resurrected. The i386 kernel just needs to use the EFI memory map and I think the rest of it should generally just work. -- John Baldwin