Date: Thu, 17 May 2012 09:28:02 -0400 From: Eric McCorkle <eric@shadowsun.net> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GSoC Project: EFI on amd64/i386 Message-ID: <4FB4FCE2.7060509@shadowsun.net> In-Reply-To: <4FB33BD9.3030501@FreeBSD.org> References: <4FA95960.7090908@shadowsun.net> <BA85B7AA-FEA5-40B0-A15A-B4E000206C59@xcllnt.net> <4FB17B85.9080701@shadowsun.net> <201205151144.38123.jhb@freebsd.org> <4FB33BD9.3030501@FreeBSD.org>
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This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------020706010607010508060305 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=KOI8-R Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 05/16/12 01:32, Andrey V. Elsukov wrote: > As i see we already have sys/boot/efi/libefi/efipart.c that uses > EFI BLOCK_IO_PROTOCOL to make "part" devsw. EFI BLOCK_IO_PROTOCOL > provides access to each disk and partition. AFAIK it supports only > GPT and MBR+EBR, so there might be some problems with ZFS support, > because we can use ZFS atop of BSD partition. > I'd need to take a look, but if the efi loaders are not directly calling the EFI_BLOCK_IO_PROTOCOL functions, then it should be easy to implement a layer that understands BSDlabels. IA64 might have a solution. Then again, is a BSDlabel really necessary on a GPT disk? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (FreeBSD) iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJPtPziAAoJENSCzbQ+koZ7WZwQAKPN80f/I3obnwSNgSeJ9RyJ q14FYshFuOyaiPPm+HsRdJsv82rdOx9AWi5uuBLTjGADHQ7FdVZTk7fIvhSakUHN d6s/FTcxpLopnibNApXXPNla2fHi25qz8c4axd/4XyxoJ1EGIWnXJ3pQ8R/GCNhK olXDocZ+vylO6IW0ta2C4yq2rYFLNCKoR5+Kdoo4B/S+NEguqBCUW/DXTvWqeJw5 GJGzCTDmCKGaOp9LrSQ5jws4XmnqsoBFeL7Zd1Yu40KvS3QyhHpeh1GCZklq3ncG xdGcK4P7/rwrfR3zSf0tHFCbt1o7BJ0XNHL4MrZflbGuQFGvIbdReXNmLi4QDvKS 7QzqsbbtgnL6NrWfJ/Z4UqEZt0dKAj9wZNX5AVP+p2KJomSoV2NPnuuFKAtoiGfe 282daJ4q3D60fxfdo/rExdpA6k2usnxZDCyFM15hhg4jJQDnl32Yj9ym5bbTeDDU Uqoh1Ka/Oj/RtRXHLFdAdL34Jm4RyFgeaRUtVD7o7f5ASCHx0EuFFAh1eZTqFCEi yN1V1+z8FE7va0fQDO7a5S+2O8Hph9K+W8Dxcuq1g/Rg8mBZ8Klny6etWghP6vvR ISiqdMvLkfqqF3eVcB/EY9rLahHr14kabMtSWLRVurVjEPxZ/ju0+9342z3vcY75 xIQe8JfKjuOjkclmpioa =flEs -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------020706010607010508060305--
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