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Date:      Mon, 25 Jun 2018 17:40:45 +0000
From:      "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To:        Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
Cc:        Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>, "freebsd-arch@freebsd.org" <arch@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: UEFI Plans / Shifts -- RFC
Message-ID:  <20854.1529948445@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: <CANCZdfrHfJ23QEbtDb0VVSeakabyUKJyn_6nkGwObr2K_%2BYYzA@mail.gmail.com>
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In message <CANCZdfrHfJ23QEbtDb0VVSeakabyUKJyn_6nkGwObr2K_+YYzA@mail.gmail=
.com>
, Warner Losh writes:

>I thought about adding something that would set a FreeBSD-specific env va=
r
>that would give the loader.efi a hint to make things work on the second
>boot (the first boot setting it in rc.d somewhere). But that's a fragile
>solution at best, and wouldn't solve the serial installer issues.

In the very special case of the installer, how hard would it be to
give loader.efi a compiletime option of "All serial ports and video" ?

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