From owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org Fri Apr 6 00:23:58 2018 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78F09F8EB1C for ; Fri, 6 Apr 2018 00:23:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from zbeeble@gmail.com) Received: from mail-it0-x232.google.com (mail-it0-x232.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4001:c0b::232]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 14C5C7949B; Fri, 6 Apr 2018 00:23:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from zbeeble@gmail.com) Received: by mail-it0-x232.google.com with SMTP id v194-v6so6577907itb.0; Thu, 05 Apr 2018 17:23:57 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20161025; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc; bh=iETe6MAs666ZH+43UUXhQEYN1yymPTPu21ykKyJ1r+I=; b=TGO5QcHTjBkfAVzjznhnyPJi+tX+BO8oMGl2xNfDBQJsY7JGc6VhhOYG3GcgRxm8Ni aW0ulP4tWfhGUD3xJNnDHMEFDoD60D41nDxLUVHKy9BqGSs2t2/cvsYOax+4DWScBvRs 8q4CgdL5PE4oakLodFnHaNLF/+bUELRl9PKv96PseZseKhznsVPLmU8aPd4OlyO/qySU Bp+IL9vUwA5ub0aDvRDXDs6LM+q7yWG9ozdxkp46eE5NOJxImOZPglYzKRdW+nz+5nTN RCd3hCa/Dl0D1fhE2IPgZVVCiHvISS4HVSHgxfrF6aYDP1bAUYPpR9qjyq7dRxv7F5gX 5s5g== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date :message-id:subject:to:cc; bh=iETe6MAs666ZH+43UUXhQEYN1yymPTPu21ykKyJ1r+I=; b=uQtBT2JbTdD+zUncVY7rQTFXWQqxbOUCP9gpMx59HO3FJWNmSyFNm3iMWn65Kv+lN0 Jb7kBJXTzJN+0PwzWikKYSed0KkbE9lasIjHExFmLqElU7LVkygkNCp8LggrwMPk8V/v xuzGohPOyPMPJ/L22w4NBDNZbOhh2lkDniyFqAyUezYcCIy72TJU0h0oARFVQqkqXo7Y 5U5jwFDBPnTGzAaDXa/fXUx7AMK7nYCOqnP+slT1J8JL8Vy0Bagj/nB3dqho2CeKfNrV 4idzKI+Xrl7uwCJ2gADA8iasqyTR4Wp+WZylXDYoVhuXe+dmOKOJUnnrKb82xySo8ebv k3Zg== X-Gm-Message-State: ALQs6tCAZsU8UFxeO8ckGMcd2eaf4XY7ciJ3bsRlUmT/lQ1xFEYCaXv6 gp3uDydzZnb4V4pgn5o74bK3v1/e5y42DvUSUg== X-Google-Smtp-Source: AIpwx49sLWJKqUpvCMcngli1nYkVLTOvy6wk8JDcjshSqe+YSokGMyspu/Ow/mH9ujfEQPYW/hZ/3rz9yQlx7KE5TbI= X-Received: by 2002:a24:1d94:: with SMTP id 142-v6mr6990479itj.39.1522974237288; Thu, 05 Apr 2018 17:23:57 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.192.139.243 with HTTP; Thu, 5 Apr 2018 17:23:56 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: From: Zaphod Beeblebrox Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2018 20:23:56 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Call for Testing: UEFI Changes To: Kyle Evans Cc: FreeBSD Current Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.25 X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.25 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2018 00:23:58 -0000 As I said I would, I put the contents of /boot onto the FAT-formated EFI partition. This is suboptimal. The default is to use "kernel.old" ... etc ... which cannot be done on a FAT partition... at least not with our filesystem driver ... ... but with all of /boot on the EFI partition, simply starting loader.efi works. On Wed, Apr 4, 2018 at 11:57 AM, Kyle Evans wrote: > On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 7:45 PM, Kyle Evans wrote: > > Hello! > > > > A number of changes have gone in recently pertaining to UEFI booting > > and UEFI runtime services. The changes with the most damaging > > potential are: > > > > We now put UEFI runtime services into virtual address mode, fixing > > runtime services with U-Boot/UEFI as well as the firmware > > implementation in many Lenovos. The previously observed behavior was a > > kernel panic upon invocation of efibootmgr/efivar, or a kernel panic > > just loading efirt.ko or compiling EFIRT into the kernel. > > > > Graphics mode selection is now done differently to avoid regression > > caused by r327058 while still achieving the same effect. The observed > > regression was that the kernel would usually end up drawing > > incorrectly at the old resolution on a subset of the screen, due to > > incorrect framebuffer information. > > > > Explicit testing of these changes, the latest of which happened in > > r331326, and any feedback from this testing would be greatly > > appreciated. Testing should be done with either `options EFIRT` in > > your kernel config or efirt.ko loaded along with updated bootloader > > bits. > > > > I otherwise plan to MFC commits involved with the above-mentioned > > changes by sometime in the first week of April, likely no earlier than > > two (2) weeks from now on April 4th. > > > > Thanks, > > > > Kyle Evans > > As partially promised, the non-graphics related changes have been > MFC'd to stable/11 today as r332028. > > The graphics related changes are going to simmer longer and probably > get ripped out, because we're bad at this. > > Thanks, > > Kyle Evans > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >