[Bug 272731] Question on support booting 64-bit FreeBSD on a 64-bit CPU from a 32-bit EFI environment

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=272731

--- Comment #4 from Werner Lehmann <lehmannwer@gmail.com> ---
Hello Warner,

thanks a lot for putting me in touch! As you have been informed already by my
e-mails during the last few days, you already know that the bootia32.efi file
that was forwarded to me works perfectly well on my Intel Atom Baytrail device!
So we can actually say that the work is done! As I also explained in my
e-mails, my overall impression of general performance and graphical performance
on that Intel Atom Baytrail with Intel HD 620 Graphics is very positive!

So as I have seen in the 14.0 Release Process that the code slush / KBI freeze
is scheduled for the 4th of August 2023, so in a few days, I guess it would be
possible to include the support for 64-bit machines with 32-bit UEFI firmware
already, now that we know it works?

As you said yourself in the mailing list last May, this was asked for in the
forums many times, so I think that there are quite some people who would like
to see that finally happen and could benefit from that.

Another thing of course is missing hardware support for a few things, like the
ACPI battery feature (but the person who developed the bootia32.efi and the
patch for the bsdinstall script already said he was planning on doing that),
the sound support and the Wifi module support. As for the latter, I have
already seen an open request, where I will add my comment shortly:

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=251063

Thanks!

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