[coreboot] freebsd

Goetz Salzmann ml-coreboot at blacknet.de
Sun Dec 3 13:49:58 CET 2017


Dear Vincenzo,

> Can you tell me if some of you uses coreboot with the Freebsd
> Operating system on its machine ?

it denepds on your definition of "using".  None of my productive systems
are using coreboot.

But I've been experimenting with booting FreeBSD and OpenBSD with boards
running coreboot with grub payload.  You have to compile grub with
support for kfreebsd and kopenbsd.

Currently I'm toying with using coreboot with Tianocore to boot the
OpenBSD uefi-boot, as well as other uefi based bootloders (rEFInd,
FreeBSD, Linux directly, Linux using grub).  This works fine, but
using Tianocore might not be what you had in mind when you want to 
switch to coreboot from vendor BIOS.

You might want to have a look at this talks from ECC2017:

- Booting UEFI-arware OS on coreboot enabled platform
  https://ecc2017.coreboot.org/talks/2eYVdk7g9WnUQ52QNQHCIg
- A Tale of six motherboards, two BSDs and coreboot
  https://ecc2017.coreboot.org/talks/3RbDMrgYe4M-8ait4e2ycw
- A Tale of six motherboards, two BSDs and coreboot (EuroBSDcon 2017
  version)
  https://2017.eurobsdcon.org/talk-speakers/#PiotrKubaj_KatarzynaKubaj
  Video on youtube:
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTeBOCJqRd0

Personally I'd like to see something like LinuxBoot/NERF but with
the UEFI bootloaders from FreeBSD / OpenBSD instead of Linux.


Cu,
    Goetz.




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