From owner-freebsd-ia64 Mon May 20 13: 4:48 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-ia64@freebsd.org Received: from evilpete.dyndns.org (12-232-26-46.client.attbi.com [12.232.26.46]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 599F437B408; Mon, 20 May 2002 13:04:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from overcee.wemm.org ([10.0.0.3]) by evilpete.dyndns.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g4KK4j125814; Mon, 20 May 2002 13:04:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) Received: from wemm.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by overcee.wemm.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 998BC380A; Mon, 20 May 2002 13:04:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@cup.hp.com> Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>, Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.ORG>, ia64@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/boot/efi/libefi copy.c elf_freebsd.c src/sys/boot/ia64/libski copy.c elf_freebsd.c src/sys/ia64/acpica madt.c src/sys/ia64/ia64 interrupt.c machdep.c mem.c mp_machdep.c trap.c unwind.c src/sys/ia64/include cpufunc.h db_machdep.h ... In-Reply-To: <20020520195216.GB92270@gauss.cup.hp.com> Date: Mon, 20 May 2002 13:04:45 -0700 From: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> Message-Id: <20020520200445.998BC380A@overcee.wemm.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-ia64@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: <freebsd-ia64.FreeBSD.ORG> List-Archive: <http://docs.freebsd.org/mail/> (Web Archive) List-Help: <mailto:majordomo@FreeBSD.ORG?subject=help> (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: <mailto:majordomo@FreeBSD.ORG?subject=subscribe%20freebsd-ia64> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:majordomo@FreeBSD.ORG?subject=unsubscribe%20freebsd-ia64> X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Marcel Moolenaar wrote: > On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 12:40:53PM -0700, Peter Wemm wrote: > > Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > > > In message <20020520184216.GC92102@gauss.cup.hp.com>, Marcel Moolenaar wr ites > > : > > > >On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 07:46:01PM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > > > >> > > > >> >> > sys/boot/efi/libefi copy.c elf_freebsd.c=20 > > > >> > > > >> Are there anybody out there with a disk with a genuine EFI disklabel > > > >> on it ? I would like a copy please... > > > > > > > >My EFI partition is hosed, so I cannot help. It is BTW nothing more > > > >than a FAT filesystem with 0xEF (I think) as the partition type. > > > > > > Peter pointed me at the spec, there is more to it than that. > > > > It's the EFI GUID partition table (GPT) stuff we're talking about. > > That figures. I can't remember seeing a machine with a GPT. I wouldn't > even know how to create one, as I'm not aware any tools exist for that. Basically write some userland tools to create it according to the specs and make sure EFI likes it. It Shouldn't Be *That* Hard(TM) :-). It's a convenient time to do it since it's pure 64 bit, and with the UFS2 and large file system stuff in the pipeline, it would be convenient to not have to invent Yet Another Proprietary Format. Cheers, -Peter -- Peter Wemm - peter@wemm.org; peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ia64" in the body of the message