Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2001 11:58:32 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> To: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> Cc: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>, Doug Rabson <dfr@FreeBSD.org>, <cvs-all@FreeBSD.org>, <cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/boot/efi/libefi efifs.c Makefile efiboot Message-ID: <20010908115656.Q406-100000@salmon.nlsystems.com> In-Reply-To: <20010908051912.AD93C3808@overcee.netplex.com.au>
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On Fri, 7 Sep 2001, Peter Wemm wrote: > 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 no > w? > > > > Of course not :-). I can open the file and read some bytes from it. > > When I briefly looked at this before, it looked a lot like we were loading > the kernel and the loader into the same memory (region 7) at the same > addresses.. I haven't payed much attention to addresses yet. EFI seems to run without address translation and the loader loads somewhere fairly low in physical memory. I don't get any choice about where the loader is loaded - it has to self-relocate to wherever it happens to find itself. -- 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
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