From owner-cvs-all Fri Sep 7 10:13:36 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from anchor-post-34.mail.demon.net (anchor-post-34.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.92]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D9A8D37B401; Fri, 7 Sep 2001 10:13:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [62.49.251.130] (helo=herring.nlsystems.com) by anchor-post-34.mail.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 15fPC4-0004XT-0Y; Fri, 7 Sep 2001 18:13:28 +0100 Received: from herring (herring [10.0.0.2]) by herring.nlsystems.com (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f87HCDc55394; Fri, 7 Sep 2001 18:12:13 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2001 18:12:13 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson To: John Baldwin Cc: , , Doug Rabson Subject: RE: cvs commit: src/sys/boot/efi/libefi efifs.c Makefile efiboot In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 7 Sep 2001, John Baldwin wrote: > > On 07-Sep-01 Doug Rabson wrote: > > On Fri, 7 Sep 2001, John Baldwin wrote: > > > >> > >> On 07-Sep-01 Doug Rabson wrote: > >> > dfr 2001/09/07 01:51:48 PDT > >> > > >> > Modified files: > >> > sys/boot/efi/libefi Makefile efiboot.h > >> > Added files: > >> > sys/boot/efi/libefi efifs.c > >> > Log: > >> > Add a libstand filesystem for accessing EFI native filesystems. > >> > >> Woot! So how far along are you know? Can you read a kernel into memory > >> now? > > > > Of course not :-). I can open the file and read some bytes from it. > > Hmmm, ok. So what's stopping you from opening the file named "kernel" and > sticking its bytes in one contiguous slab in memory? :) Granted, the current > kernel doesn't have any sort of non-ski console driver AFAIK. I haven't written the backend hooks for the ELF loader yet. I also haven't written the trampoline which turns on paging and starts the kernel. Actually, I was hoping that Peter would wave a magic wand and get a SKI version of loader going so that I can debug some of that hairy low-level code in a forgiving environment. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Phone: +44 20 8348 6160 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message