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Date:      Thu, 10 Dec 2015 18:26:05 +0000
From:      Steven Hartland <killing@multiplay.co.uk>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: EFI/ZFS Update: successful tests, need more complex vdevs
Message-ID:  <5669C3BD.4010402@multiplay.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <CALfReyfp6gsbD-x81cU7EX%2B4TM%2Bv7zVNLzFPeOVFDqoXjpq=Kg@mail.gmail.com>
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We've used Eric's hard work which is currently under review here:
https://reviews.freebsd.org/D4104

I'm pleased to report we can now successfully EFI boot root ZFS from a 
raidz2 pool on Intel P3700 NVMe drives :)

Here's a guide for those interested:
http://blog.multiplay.co.uk/2015/12/freebsd-10-2-release-efi-zfs-root-boot/

On 04/11/2015 12:35, krad wrote:
> is there not anyway freebsd could provide patched signed binaries outside
> the main distros for testing purposes, as it should be fairly straight
> forward to drop them in? I think you might be a much bigger audience for
> testing then?
>
> On 2 November 2015 at 19:16, Gabor Radnai <gabor.radnai@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Appreciate, thank you very much. I think my confusion is because the latest
>> patch you provided on the list
>> on *Fri Oct 23 11:19:07 UTC 2015*
>>
>> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/attachments/20151023/db1ac571/attachment.bin
>>
>> is not a full patch but a diff to your original patch. Anyhow, I'm ok now
>> applying original patch and this latest diff everything seems fine
>> (apart that for some reason my server dislikes booting automatically from
>> the EFI partition, manually loading bootx64.efi works like charm.
>> but that's definitely nothing to do with your great work).
>>
>> Thanks.
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