[haiku-development] Re: UEFI boot status
- From: Jessica Hamilton <jessica.l.hamilton@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2014 20:06:03 +1200
On 26 August 2014 07:09, Nikita Nazarenko <savant.d@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Thanks Frederik! I have ambitious goal to run haiku on my Thinkpad E330.
>
>
> On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 11:01 PM, Fredrik Holmqvist
> <fredrik.holmqvist@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> 2014-08-25 20:48 GMT+02:00 Nikita Nazarenko <savant.d@xxxxxxxxx>:
>> > Okay. How about overall UEFI booting status? Is there something, or it
>> > must
>> > be written from scratch?
>>
>> No, it is quite far along but still needs work. I believe the latest code
>> is in
>> https://github.com/jessicah/haiku/tree/efi.gsoc
>>
>> Here is the EFI parts:
>>
>> https://github.com/jessicah/haiku/tree/efi.gsoc/src/system/boot/platform/efi
The loader runs, and can find bootable Haiku partitions. It's
basically at the point of needing to set up paging, probably booting
the CPUs, and attempting to actually start the kernel.
This is work I had expected our GSoC student to undertake. ATM, have
been struggling to get back into developing, so some extra hands would
be most welcome...
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