Bay Trail 32bit UEFI
Joe Holden
mail at m.jwh.me.uk
Wed Mar 2 10:10:20 UTC 2016
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
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