From af574e698faccfc1ad9e09efa1325a3d0dc5492a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ed Maste Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2015 21:14:56 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Add brief UEFI status update --- .../news/status/report-2015-07-2015-09.xml | 36 +++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 36 insertions(+) diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-07-2015-09.xml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-07-2015-09.xml index 3eaddc2704..5d9e25e398 100644 --- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-07-2015-09.xml +++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-07-2015-09.xml @@ -786,6 +786,42 @@ + + UEFI Boot and Framebuffer Support + + + + + Ed + Maste + + emaste@freebsd.org + + + + Marcel + Moolenaar + + marcel@freebsd.org + + + + +

A number of UEFI bug fixes were committed over the last + quarter, improving compatibility with different UEFI + implementations. + This includes improvements to EFI's vt(4) framebuffer + driver, efifb, to handle systems with high resolution + displays and unusual framebuffer stride values. + In particular this improves compatibility with a large + number of recent Apple MacBook Pros and other Macs.

+ + + Test FreeBSD-CURRENT and FreeBSD-STABLE snapshots on + a variety of UEFI implementations. + + + The FreeBSD Foundation