From owner-freebsd-ia64 Mon May 20 13:11: 9 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-ia64@freebsd.org Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.86.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E0A9737B407; Mon, 20 May 2002 13:11:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.12.3/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g4KK7k6g002796; Mon, 20 May 2002 22:07:46 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: Peter Wemm Cc: Marcel Moolenaar , Ruslan Ermilov , 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: Your message of "Mon, 20 May 2002 13:04:45 PDT." <20020520200445.998BC380A@overcee.wemm.org> Date: Mon, 20 May 2002 22:07:46 +0200 Message-ID: <2795.1021925266@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-ia64@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org In message <20020520200445.998BC380A@overcee.wemm.org>, Peter Wemm writes: >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. We're on our way, but it would be nice catching a wild one for compat testing. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ia64" in the body of the message