svn commit: r45269 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status
Glen Barber <[email protected]>
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Author: gjb
Date: Sun Jul 13 17:55:48 2014
New Revision: 45269
URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/45269
Log:
Add UEFI report.
Submitted by: emaste
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
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 Sun Jul 13 17:51:12 2014 (r45268)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-04-2014-06.xml Sun Jul 13 17:55:48 2014 (r45269)
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@
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<p>Thanks to all the reporters for the excellent work! This
- report contains 6 entries and we hope you enjoy reading it.</p>
+ report contains 7 entries and we hope you enjoy reading it.</p>
<p>The deadline for submissions covering between July and
September 2014 is October 7th, 2014.</p>
@@ -503,4 +503,67 @@
interested in!</task>
</help>
</project>
+
+ <project cat='kern'>
+ <title>UEFI Boot</title>
+
+ <contact>
+ <person>
+ <name>
+ <given>Ed</given>
+ <common>Maste</common>
+ </name>
+ <email>[email protected]</email>
+ <name>
+ <given>Nathan</given>
+ <common>Whitehorn</common>
+ </name>
+ <email>[email protected]</email>
+ </person>
+ </contact>
+
+ <links>
+ <url href="https://wiki.freebsd.org/UEFI">&os; UEFI wiki page</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 vt(4) system console —
+ a framebuffer driver is not implemented for the legacy
+ syscons(4) console. Ed added automatic vt(4) selection to the
+ UEFI boot path.</p>
+
+ <p><url href="http://www.freebsd.org/snapshots/">&os; snapshots</url>
+ are now built as dual-mode images, and should boot via BIOS
+ and UEFI. Our plan is to merge the UEFI and vt(4) 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>
</report>
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