On Fri, 25 Mar 2016, Lundberg, Johannes wrote: > One problem is that most of these devices have only 32 bit UEFI which > FreeBSD does not support (except Intel Compute Stick which has 64 bit UEFI). The MinnowBoard has both 32-bit and 64-bit UEFI. My Turbot came with 64-bit UEFI, and the FreeBSD amd64 UEFI install image works fine with it. This is an Atom E3826 board. > I use special built Grub to boot a 64 bit Arch Linux on this chip, maybe > same approach could be used to boot a 64 bit FreeBSD. However, you probably > won't be able to use the internal eMMC (if your device got it) since the > controller can not initiate mmc memory correctly. Work in progress here > though by me and Ilya. > > On a side note, > it would though be nice to have 32 bit UEFI support on FreeBSD because that > would include support for Intel IoT boards like Galileo etc which are all > 32 bit. Might be a lot of work though.. If any existing 32-bit Linux UEFI loader could be made to work with FreeBSD (possibly chainloading?), that would be better than nothing. I would like to have the opposite method also, having a 64-bit UEFI boot a 32-bit FreeBSD. (Why? So my run-on-anything 32-bit FreeBSD image could still work on any UEFI system.)Received on Fri Mar 25 2016 - 17:47:24 UTC
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