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Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2001 15:50:57 -0700 (PDT)
From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>
Subject: RE: cvs commit: src/sys/boot/efi/libefi efifs.c Makefile efiboot
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On 07-Sep-01 Doug Rabson wrote:
> 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.

Well, he has the simulator up and running and physical hardware now, so he's
got no excuse for slacking off.  Unless he's finishing up his NFS work. :)

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