svn commit: r48042 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status

Sun Jan 17 03:13:35 UTC 2016

Author: bjk
Date: Sun Jan 17 03:13:34 2016
New Revision: 48042
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/48042

Log:
  Add entry on UEFI boot and framebuffer support, from emaste

Modified:
  head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-10-2015-12.xml

Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-10-2015-12.xml
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--- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-10-2015-12.xml	Sun Jan 17 03:09:22 2016	(r48041)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-10-2015-12.xml	Sun Jan 17 03:13:34 2016	(r48042)
@@ -2849,4 +2849,48 @@
       </task>
     </help>
   </project>
+
+  <project cat='proj'>
+    <title>UEFI Boot and Framebuffer Support</title>
+
+    <contact>
+      <person>
+	<name>
+	  <given>Ed</given>
+	  <common>Maste</common>
+	</name>
+	<email>emaste at FreeBSD.org</email>
+      </person>
+    </contact>
+
+    <body>
+      <p>A number of UEFI bug fixes were committed over the last
+	quarter, further improving compatibility with different UEFI
+	implementations.  Specifically, on some implementations, &os;
+	failed to boot with an "ExitBootServices() returned
+	0x8000000000000002" error.  This has been fixed with a retry
+	loop (as required by UEFI), in r292515 and r292338.</p>
+
+      <p>UEFI improvements from other developers have recently been
+	commited or are in progress.  These include support for environment
+	variables set on the EFI loader command line, improved text console
+	mode setting, support for nvram variables, and root-on-ZFS
+	support.</p>
+    </body>
+
+    <sponsor>
+      The FreeBSD Foundation
+    </sponsor>
+
+    <help>
+      <task>
+	<p>Test &os;-CURRENT snapshots on a variety of UEFI
+	  implementations.</p></task>
+
+      <task>
+	<p>Merge UEFI changes to stable/10, for &os;
+	  10.3-RELEASE.</p>
+      </task>
+    </help>
+  </project>
 </report>
