From 97b5e77983b8c5e97a517f30a0722a87e0b39995 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Benjamin Kaduk Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2016 03:13:34 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Add entry on UEFI boot and framebuffer support, from emaste --- .../news/status/report-2015-10-2015-12.xml | 44 +++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 44 insertions(+) diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-10-2015-12.xml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-10-2015-12.xml index d235e07b96..a1a63ec916 100644 --- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-10-2015-12.xml +++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-10-2015-12.xml @@ -2849,4 +2849,48 @@ + + + UEFI Boot and Framebuffer Support + + + + + Ed + Maste + + emaste@FreeBSD.org + + + + +

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.

+ +

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.

+ + + + The FreeBSD Foundation + + + + +

Test &os;-CURRENT snapshots on a variety of UEFI + implementations.

 + + +

Merge UEFI changes to stable/10, for &os; + 10.3-RELEASE.

+ + +