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 <jhb_at_freebsd.org > <mailto:jhb_at_freebsd.org>> 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_at_freebsd.org <mailto:freebsd-current_at_freebsd.org> > mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-current-unsubscribe_at_freebsd.org > <mailto:freebsd-current-unsubscribe_at_freebsd.org>"Received on Wed Mar 02 2016 - 09:10:20 UTC
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