FreeBSD and Coreboot

[Edward Napierala]

On Mon, 27 May 2019 at 16:14, Eric McCorkle <eric at metricspace.net> wrote:

[..]

> My plan is roughly this:
>
> * Refurbish the GRUB port, get it working again in QEMU (possibly on one
> of my machines), also possibly push a patch to GRUB to use the keybufs
> mechanism to pass in GELI keys.
>
> * Get coreboot with GRUB/Seabios booting FreeBSD in QEMU
>
> * Possibly create a coreboot port (uncertain how this would work, since
> Coreboot has its own extensive config menu)
>
> * Hold my breath and test it out on real hardware (I have a Librem 13 r1
> for this purpose)
>
> * Possibly try getting the FreeBSD kernel to work as a coreboot payload.

Out of curiosity - why the kernel and not loader(8)?