From owner-cvs-all Sat Sep 8 4: 0:23 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from anchor-post-33.mail.demon.net (anchor-post-33.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.91]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7BDB437B407; Sat, 8 Sep 2001 04:00:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [62.49.251.130] (helo=herring.nlsystems.com) by anchor-post-33.mail.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 15ffqK-0004Sv-0X; Sat, 8 Sep 2001 12:00:08 +0100 Received: from salmon.nlsystems.com (salmon [10.0.0.3]) by herring.nlsystems.com (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f88Awrc60751; Sat, 8 Sep 2001 11:58:53 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2001 11:58:32 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson To: Peter Wemm Cc: John Baldwin , Doug Rabson , , Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/boot/efi/libefi efifs.c Makefile efiboot In-Reply-To: <20010908051912.AD93C3808@overcee.netplex.com.au> Message-ID: <20010908115656.Q406-100000@salmon.nlsystems.com> 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, 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