On 04/03/12 13:22, Doug Ambrisko wrote: > Eric McCorkle writes: > | I'm assessing possible summer of code projects, and the EFI work caught > | my attention. I've been running FreeBSD on a macbook for a little under > | a year now, and booting on EFI is definitely an interest to me. Does > | anyone know if this is still a viable project proposal? I certainly > | have the skills to undertake it, I just want to make sure that it stands > | a chance of actually being selected. > > EFI is a good task. For generic PC's we need an X64 format. The current > version in FreeBSD is IA32 format. The X64 can boot i386/amd64. > Qemu can be used to test both IA32 and X64 formats. I added some > notes about this on the wiki at: > > http://wiki.freebsd.org/IdeasPage#EFI_support_for_FreeBSD.2BAC8-i386_and_FreeBSD.2BAC8-amd64_.28GSoC.29
Based on the feedback I've gotten, I've gone ahead and submitted the proposal. It should be available, and I can edit it up to the 6th. -- Eric McCorkle Computer Science Ph.D Student e...@shadowsun.net
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