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Date:      Fri, 11 Sep 2020 12:11:32 -0600
From:      Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
To:        Greg V <greg@unrelenting.technology>
Cc:        Robert Clausecker <fuz@fuz.su>, Mark Millard <marklmi@yahoo.com>,  "freebsd-arm@freebsd.org" <freebsd-arm@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Attempting to install on RPi4B w/ UEFI, having some problems
Message-ID:  <CANCZdfqmA6BNigXeeo=Gfc=weGtJpUw32EpZSXruh7rUKgv1eQ@mail.gmail.com>
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References:  <20200910201146.GA99827@fuz.su> <0E3AD53C-AA47-491B-B1C3-931C559CDC10@yahoo.com> <20200911114214.GA56507@fuz.su> <5a89c2a07da75b2f1bcbdae9741982cc@unrelenting.technology>

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On Fri, Sep 11, 2020 at 7:56 AM <greg@unrelenting.technology> wrote:

> September 11, 2020 2:42 PM, "Robert Clausecker" <fuz@fuz.su> wrote:
>
> >> On 2020-Sep-10, at 13:11, Robert Clausecker <fuz at fuz.su> wrote:
> >> FYI: I use GPT partitioning. (No claim that you need to.)
> >
> > Ah, good to know that that works. I was afraid the UEFI code
> > required an MBR scheme as the documentation indicated such.
>
> EDK2 UEFI not supporting GPT would be *very* weird.
> I'm pretty sure the documentation was referring to the RPi early firmware.
>

In EDK2, both seem to be support well. If anything, the FreeBSD UEFI code
supports GPT better than MBR. It's certainly better tested.

Warner



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