svn commit: r45769 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status

Ed Maste <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.cvs.doc
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Author: emaste (src committer)
Date: Fri Oct 10 19:14:27 2014
New Revision: 45769
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/45769

Log:
  Add UEFI submission

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 17:28:33 2014	(r45768)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-04-2014-06.xml	Fri Oct 10 19:14:27 2014	(r45769)
@@ -1654,4 +1654,65 @@
     </help>
   </project>
 
+  <project cat='kern'>
+    <title>UEFI Boot</title>
+
+    <contact>
+      <person>
+	<name>
+	  <given>Ed</given>
+	  <common>Maste</common>
+	</name>
+	<email>[email protected]</email>
+      </person>
+
+      <person>
+	<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>
+      <url href="http://www.freebsd.org/snapshots/">&os;&nbsp;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>Over the last three months Ed and others refined the existing
+	UEFI support, and merged it to the stable/10 branch for the
+	upcoming FreeBSD 10.1 release.</p>
+
+      <p>To avoid the risk of a regression, the standard FreeBSD 10.1
+	install images continue to use the existing partitioning scheme
+	and support only legacy BIOS boot.  Separate UEFI-enabled
+	installer images will be included with 10.1.<p>
+
+    <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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