From owner-freebsd-acpi@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 15 19:06:30 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 246711065674 for ; Tue, 15 Feb 2011 19:06:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from avg@freebsd.org) Received: from citadel.icyb.net.ua (citadel.icyb.net.ua [212.40.38.140]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 66E128FC1F for ; Tue, 15 Feb 2011 19:06:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from odyssey.starpoint.kiev.ua (alpha-e.starpoint.kiev.ua [212.40.38.101]) by citadel.icyb.net.ua (8.8.8p3/ICyb-2.3exp) with ESMTP id UAA23258; Tue, 15 Feb 2011 20:46:32 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from avg@freebsd.org) Message-ID: <4D5ACA07.6020803@freebsd.org> Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2011 20:46:31 +0200 From: Andriy Gapon User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD amd64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101213 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: deloff_t References: <4806491963FC474895626B41B3212B86049494@DB2PRD0103MB034.eurprd01.prod.exchangelabs.com> In-Reply-To: <4806491963FC474895626B41B3212B86049494@DB2PRD0103MB034.eurprd01.prod.exchangelabs.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: Searching mentor for EFI support subject in project idea page X-BeenThere: freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: ACPI and power management development List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2011 19:06:30 -0000 on 15/02/2011 19:28 deloff_t said the following: > Hi, > > I'm searching someone who can be a mentor on this subject (I would like to do GSoC 2011, I'm trying to get ahead with EFI): > "Finish EFI support on the i386/amd64 ports. Final work should be able to boot a FreeBSD kernel into single user mode, at least." > > I contacted Rui Paulo who was the contact but he's not longer available and he suggests me to ask on mailing list. > I think that its the most appropriate mailing list for my issue. > > I'm going to begin to search some documentations on EFI and boot process in general. > If you have some advices, they'll be welcome ! :) Not sure if you picked the best mailing list. -- Andriy Gapon