The FreeBSD Foundation is pleased to announce that Benno Rice has been
awarded a grant to implement the ability to boot FreeBSD in the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) boot environment.
The
work to be done includes a new version of the loader, kernel
modifications to support starting from a UEFI environment and the ability to create install media for pure UEFI systems.
"UEFI
support is critical for FreeBSD's future on the amd64 platform and I'm
really pleased to be able to ensure that FreeBSD gains support for it," said Benno.
This project is expected to be completed in March 2013.
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Good news !
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