Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2011 14:26:30 +0300 From: Andriy Gapon <avg@FreeBSD.org> To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Fresh installed Freebsd 9 don't boot from hd Message-ID: <4EA69CE6.5070601@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <201110241423.44951.jhb@freebsd.org> References: <CAAoTqftvv1t214Q9uWJR-Jug4GJEZshXyOr6uB_d19h2NV89XA@mail.gmail.com> <201110241133.23397.jhb@freebsd.org> <4EA59165.1000202@FreeBSD.org> <201110241423.44951.jhb@freebsd.org>
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on 24/10/2011 21:23 John Baldwin said the following: > On Monday, October 24, 2011 12:25:09 pm Andriy Gapon wrote: >> Also, perhaps edd_params_v3 and edd_params_v4 should inherit edd_params in some >> "smarter" way to avoid verbatim duplicates. > > Yeah, probably so. We will probably never even use them anyway (just as we don't > use edd_packet_v3 even though we could probably make use of it to avoid some > bounce buffering in the loader). > >> Other than these issues the patch looks great! >> Perhaps later we could do detailed definitions for things like interface paths for >> various cases, etc. > > I doubt we will ever use them. In theory we could pass that information from loader to kernel, so that in a booted system we could try to build a mapping between kernel disks and bios disks, with the boot disk potentially being of the most interest. -- Andriy Gapon
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