On 5/27/2019 10:13, Eric McCorkle wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I'm through enough of my job change that I can start working on FreeBSD > again. One thing I've had on my list to examine is using FreeBSD with > coreboot, so I wanted to put out a call for anyone who has done work on > this, or knows anything about it. > > Here is what I know: > > * Coreboot _can_ boot kernels directly, but this requires two things: 1) > you must flash your BIOS every time you update a kernel, 2) the kernel > must be able to work without the usual device initialization that the > BIOS does. > > * Coreboot has two significant payload options beyond a kernel: Seabios > and GRUB (supposedly Tianocore EFI is an option, but it apparently > doesn't really work). > > * Scrounging the coreboot wiki seems to produce some conflicting > information. One page claims that the FreeBSD kernel can boot directly > as a coreboot payload; another claims GRUB or Seabios to be the only > options. > > * The PC Engines boards evidently use coreboot, and I've heard multiple > reports of them running FreeBSD systems without a problem. I don't know > whether they use GRUB or Seabios. (Aside: I'm thinking about ordering > some of these boards for my own use, so I'm generally interested in how > well they function with FreeBSD) > PCEngines machines run just fine with FreeBSD; I use and support a bunch of them around here for various purposes, mostly as edge firewall and gateway devices. -- Karl Denninger k...@denninger.net <mailto:k...@denninger.net> /The Market Ticker/ /[S/MIME encrypted email preferred]/
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