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Hello emc2. Unfortunately my proposal was not accepted and neither was any other proposal on the same project.

That is very likely true, considering Raid controllers generally have built-in BIOS that chained with motherboard BIOS. Probably only a select Intel Raid controllers can work with EFI. Thank you for your information though.

Thank you phs for your advice. I will surely not be discouraged by the challenges. Actually I was prepared for the sheer difficulty that lies in the kernel initialization (e.g. init386() and mi_startup()). However I was surprised to know that even the machine-independent mi_startup() contains...

I have planned to write an EFI bootloader for FreeBSD/i386. I recently submitted my proposal to apply for this project as my Google Summer of Code 2011 participation. My approach was to implement the following three components: 1) an EFI application that loads 2); 2) a patched /boot/loader that...

Thank you very much. So can I say that the work required to boot FreeBSD/i386 on EFI already includes that to run FreeBSD on EFI?

Thank you phs. I am aware of the fact that FreeBSD/i386 relies on BIOS during bootstrapping. I am more interested in knowing if the current FreeBSD/i386 kernel is compiled with references to BIOS (I am sure FreeBSD/ia64 kernel must not be), so that the kernel will not break on BIOS-less systems...

Hello everyone. While I am exploring the possibility of EFI (Extensible Firmware Interface) bootstrapping of FreeBSD to allow it to boot natively on my MacBook Pro without BIOS-emulation provided by Boot Camp, I am interested in knowing whether the i386/amd64 versions of FreeBSD rely on BIOS...