From owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org Wed Mar 2 10:10:20 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 01960AC0AF9 for ; Wed, 2 Mar 2016 10:10:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mail@m.jwh.me.uk) Received: from eva.tinkyfi.com (eva.tinkyfi.com [107.191.63.190]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C415F1435; Wed, 2 Mar 2016 10:10:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mail@m.jwh.me.uk) Received: from [172.21.88.129] (cpc82705-staf9-2-0-cust342.3-1.cable.virginm.net [81.108.23.87]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: mail@m.jwh.me.uk) by eva.tinkyfi.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 3qFWKc5YS5z5Hj9; Wed, 2 Mar 2016 10:10:12 +0000 (UTC) Subject: Re: Bay Trail 32bit UEFI To: "Lundberg, Johannes" , John Baldwin References: <56D29AF6.50401@m.jwh.me.uk> <4073395.HnTjdCHcSr@ralph.baldwin.cx> Cc: FreeBSD Current From: Joe Holden Message-ID: <56D6BC03.2040508@m.jwh.me.uk> Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2016 10:10:11 +0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 10:10:20 -0000 On 02/03/2016 01:45, Lundberg, Johannes wrote: > CherryTrail devices/boards with 64bit UEFI are already out. Upgrading > the hardware is one solution (I did). > I'm thinking of the sticks etc, they all have 32bit UEFI and no CSM/legacy boot, but have 64bit cpus > I never did try FreeBSD on BayTrail but for running Linux on BayTrail I > used special built Grub that was 32bit but could load 64bit OS. Could > this kind of Grub boot a 64bit FreeBSD, I wonder? > I looked at this but honestly it looked like a giant nightmare - I did get grub loading on a test platform (tablet, for display etc) but didn't manage to make it boot anything > > On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 5:20 PM, John Baldwin > wrote: > > 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 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org > mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org > "