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Date:      Sat, 08 Sep 2001 14:18:14 -0700
From:      Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, Doug Rabson <dfr@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/boot/efi/libefi efifs.c Makefile efiboot 
Message-ID:  <20010908211814.0C6F6380A@overcee.netplex.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.010907100548.jhb@FreeBSD.org> 

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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 built a libstand and loader.efi, after upgrading the SDV box to the current
B17A firmware and loader.efi basically does this:

fs0:\> loader

Console: EFI Console

FreeBSD/ia64 EFI boot, Revision 0.1
(peter@mhostname time date of build)
 not found
<hang>

The before the EFI upgrade, it didn't print the " not found" message before
the hang.

This was at about 5am and I was out of time, so I didn't get much chance
to tinker.  As a bonus, the B117A upgrade killed the linux installation
on the disk..  It now fails when lilo / eli start up with "_PRT not found"
so something pretty close to that.

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


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