svn commit: r47575 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status

Thu Oct 15 21:14:58 UTC 2015

Author: emaste (src committer)
Date: Thu Oct 15 21:14:56 2015
New Revision: 47575
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/47575

Log:
  Add brief UEFI status update

Modified:
  head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-07-2015-09.xml

Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-07-2015-09.xml
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--- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-07-2015-09.xml	Thu Oct 15 20:57:30 2015	(r47574)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-07-2015-09.xml	Thu Oct 15 21:14:56 2015	(r47575)
@@ -787,6 +787,42 @@
   </project>
 
   <project cat='misc'>
+    <title>UEFI Boot and Framebuffer Support</title>
+
+    <contact>
+      <person>
+	<name>
+	  <given>Ed</given>
+	  <common>Maste</common>
+	</name>
+	<email>emaste at freebsd.org</email>
+      </person>
+      <person>
+	<name>
+	  <given>Marcel</given>
+	  <common>Moolenaar</common>
+	</name>
+	<email>marcel at freebsd.org</email>
+      </person>
+    </contact>
+
+    <body>
+      <p>A number of UEFI bug fixes were committed over the last
+	quarter, improving compatibility with different UEFI
+	implementations.
+	This includes improvements to EFI's vt(4) framebuffer
+	driver, efifb, to handle systems with high resolution
+	displays and unusual framebuffer stride values.
+	In particular this improves compatibility with a large
+	number of recent Apple MacBook Pros and other Macs.</p>
+    </body>
+    <help>
+      <task>Test FreeBSD-CURRENT and FreeBSD-STABLE snapshots on
+	a variety of UEFI implementations.</task>
+    </help>
+  </project>
+
+  <project cat='misc'>
     <title>The FreeBSD Foundation</title>
 
     <contact>
