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Date:      Wed, 17 Jun 2020 12:12:00 -0600
From:      Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
To:        Rebecca Cran <rebecca@bsdio.com>
Cc:        "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd-rwg@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>, Miguel C <miguelmclara@gmail.com>,  FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: CTF: UEFI HTTP boot support
Message-ID:  <CANCZdfrJ86b%2Bf6WDi=P9dPv8MJM-%2BC5-6dfBx3KKrct_D8L4tg@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <05B13267-8CE6-452F-A969-C37DE22E640A@bsdio.com>
References:  <202006171740.05HHecjX086405@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> <05B13267-8CE6-452F-A969-C37DE22E640A@bsdio.com>

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On Wed, Jun 17, 2020 at 12:06 PM Rebecca Cran <rebecca@bsdio.com> wrote:

>
> > On Jun 17, 2020, at 11:40 AM, Rodney W. Grimes <
> freebsd-rwg@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> wrote:
> >
> > Does FreeBSD kernel have a driver that can talk to the UEFI ramdisk?
>
> I=E2=80=99m fairly sure UEFI generates it as a standard CD drive.
>

I missed the start of this thread, so maybe I'm missing a key detail.
However, I thought UEFI didn't have a RAM-disk, per se, but that we could
load memory areas and pass that into the kernel using freebsd-only methods.
But UEFI is a bit weird, so maybe it will generate a virtual cdrom...

Warner



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