FreeBSD and UEFI

O. Hartmann ohartman at zedat.fu-berlin.de
Mon Sep 30 09:20:40 UTC 2013


On Sat, 28 Sep 2013 22:06:08 -0700
Nicholas McKenzie <nicholassmckenzie at gmail.com> wrote:

> In otherwords, no, it doesn't support UEFI yet (or anytime soon it
> sounds like).

This is very bad news :-(

> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: John Baldwin <jhb at freebsd.org>
> Date: Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 9:16 AM
> Subject: Re: FreeBSD and UEFI
> To: freebsd-amd64 at freebsd.org, neel at neelc.org
> 
> 
> On Friday, September 13, 2013 7:35:06 pm Neel Chauhan wrote:
> > Hello FreeBSD users,
> > Do you have any status on UEFI support for FreeBSD? I emailed Benno
> > Rice, who was supposed to implement UEFI support for FreeBSD and he
> > hasn't responded in the last few months. Do any of you know if
> > FreeBSD supports UEFI booting yet?
> 
> The work that was done is in Benno's projects branch in SVN.  It has
> not been merged into HEAD.
> 
> --
> John Baldwin
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