Add UEFI report.

Submitted by:	emaste
Sponsored by:	The FreeBSD Foundation
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<p>Thanks to all the reporters for the excellent work! This
report contains 6 entries and we hope you enjoy reading it.</p>
report contains 7 entries and we hope you enjoy reading it.</p>
<p>The deadline for submissions covering between July and
September 2014 is October 7th, 2014.</p>
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interested in!</task>
</help>
</project>
<project cat='kern'>
<title>UEFI Boot</title>
<contact>
<person>
<name>
<given>Ed</given>
<common>Maste</common>
</name>
<email>emaste@FreeBSD.org</email>
<name>
<given>Nathan</given>
<common>Whitehorn</common>
</name>
<email>nwhitehorn@freebsd.org</email>
</person>
</contact>
<links>
<url href="https://wiki.freebsd.org/UEFI">&os; UEFI wiki page</url>
</links>
<body>
<p>The Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) provides
boot- and run-time services for x86 and other computers. For
the x86 architecture it replaces the legacy BIOS. This
project will adapt the &os; loader and kernel boot process for
compatibility with UEFI firmware, found on contemporary
servers, desktops, and laptops.</p>
<p>Ed and Nathan completed a number of integration tasks over
the past three months. Nathan added a first-stage loader,
boot1.efi, to support chain-loading the rest of the system
from a UFS filesystem. This allows the UEFI boot process to
proceed in a similar fashion as with BIOS boot. Nathan also
added UEFI support to the &os; installer and release image
creation script.</p>
<p>The EFI framebuffer requires the vt(4) system console &mdash;
a framebuffer driver is not implemented for the legacy
syscons(4) console. Ed added automatic vt(4) selection to the
UEFI boot path.</p>
<p><url href="http://www.freebsd.org/snapshots/">&os;&nbsp;snapshots</url>
are now built as dual-mode images, and should boot via BIOS
and UEFI. Our plan is to merge the UEFI and vt(4) work to
stable/10 to appear in &os; 10.1-RELEASE.</p>
</body>
<sponsor>The &os; Foundation</sponsor>
<help>
<task>Document manual installation, including dual-boot
configurations.</task>
<task>Implement boot1.efi for ZFS file systems.</task>
<task>Add support for UEFI variables stored in non-volatile
memory (NVRAM).</task>
<task>Debug boot failures with certain UEFI firmware
implementations.</task>
<task>Support secure boot.</task>
</help>
</project>
</report>