Re: Booting BSD on a libreboot system - documentation needed

[Leah Rowe <info%gluglug.org.uk@localhost>]

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Tianocore handles EFI, but we don't need it in libreboot

On 23/10/16 01:29, William D. Jones wrote:
> Although, I'm ill-equipped to work on this, I am also curious about
> BSD support for libreboot. What is blocking EFI support?
> 
> -----Original Message----- From: Swift Griggs Sent: Friday,
> September 30, 2016 5:42 PM To: Leah Rowe Cc:
> current-users%NetBSD.org@localhost Subject: Re: Booting BSD on a libreboot
> system - documentation needed
> 
> On Fri, 30 Sep 2016, Leah Rowe wrote:
>> Libreboot is a free/opensource BIOS/UEFI
>> implementation/replacement. GNU/Linux is supported well, but
>> people have recently started figuring out how to boot BSD.
> 
> Very cool. I for one will check it out.
> 
> If I'm not mistaken, NetBSD's bootloader doesn't yet support EFI.
> It sounds like it's somewhat less jiggery-pokery than an MBR
> bootloader. Plus it just uses a regular FAT32 file system. I'm sure
> there are difficulties I'm not aware of, but I'm hoping for good
> things, soon.
> 
> -Swift
> 
> -- William D. Jones thor0505%comcast.net@localhost

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Leah Rowe

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