From owner-cvs-all Fri Sep 7 22:17:26 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from peter3.wemm.org (c1315225-a.plstn1.sfba.home.com [24.14.150.180]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BE4837B403; Fri, 7 Sep 2001 22:17:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from overcee.netplex.com.au (overcee.wemm.org [10.0.0.3]) by peter3.wemm.org (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id f885HGM52908; Fri, 7 Sep 2001 22:17:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) Received: from wemm.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by overcee.netplex.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA90A3808; Fri, 7 Sep 2001 22:17:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) X-Mailer: exmh version 2.3.1 01/18/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: John Baldwin Cc: Doug Rabson , Doug Rabson , cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/boot/efi/libefi efifs.c Makefile efiboot In-Reply-To: Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2001 22:17:15 -0700 From: Peter Wemm Message-Id: <20010908051715.DA90A3808@overcee.netplex.com.au> 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 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: > >> > 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 memor y > >> >> 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. :) My murphey field struck and caused three drives to depart my file server raid at an inopportune time. I've essentially lost this week reassembling it. I've got my data back but have not yet got the machine running again. Cheers, -Peter -- Peter Wemm - peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com; peter@netplex.com.au "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message