From owner-freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Sat Dec 17 15:34:35 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A1DFC856FF for ; Sat, 17 Dec 2016 15:34:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from allbery.b@gmail.com) Received: from mail-io0-x22d.google.com (mail-io0-x22d.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4001:c06::22d]) (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 4EA2AC5A; Sat, 17 Dec 2016 15:34:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from allbery.b@gmail.com) Received: by mail-io0-x22d.google.com with SMTP id d9so121211694ioe.0; Sat, 17 Dec 2016 07:34:35 -0800 (PST) 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=enipiNIsoNJA84LUvKwI2bLngm+b2o7rcXsovt/vogQ=; b=J4hdU2YrrjHazHR1ArbHngygzTaHQ1mb4GdtTQms+HD4Dc5vHvEdyqvDdlTVwQuIOu lclsNt8BXunReO/SZ+6P2kYfQpsUtU8JlCdBh6wJwnSpecvGQ64LBo1iFIEGKoRQaDZ7 MLQcTwtMxLyEjIra4aFPT9Nk6s+fu9zt6BgWzFTKdZ0VFeaVlUMa0j5cxnW+7NAbW+2G 2qye+gMrGTflUrWEnyCd39FHd02k5M/gXHaicNrPYIbmkjSf5QEG9A5naP2E/eFz+FWF xOSsYbs66kEPpECSxDqsnplq7flDV0nPmEoHooASg6WlOvRFTq9Idn1wx0LIhUM96A8Q hAog== 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=enipiNIsoNJA84LUvKwI2bLngm+b2o7rcXsovt/vogQ=; b=Sn/bR8Sgu7rtmNbGC0XFz8HeZG3vwIuKwF6yTEZxnFRU3A28ytyh1MSVIhAgoAYWdZ xtHA4iS9BBtEqWqvnwokvDwcSN4I++P+NkufUZIcQSF9nu5BeWTbkKWF7+F5PTX9lvFd r+yLgTYiP5uCHvMl4kyeobN3/+w8Z8xLrnaQ3orFD3S+yPA7FSk3sJN2g1OLof8q5Mc6 vrsDbBbYZfp9sQDThDYhS0Zne21JF5qwSS0qIMh39GozV9EfEgZbIkJVLQLVSCTgXHl+ 6Xay9b1aIpeypotMgCsnayqvWQiyMWn1Y8zkTPARpqxs45pkRqhv1m4r7b85EGHrlIXJ wvSQ== X-Gm-Message-State: AIkVDXJzEnc6WzBWO/awFld+0gGE4MFTBiBg5jl9/TRe5dbrfRBQiCk2Vy+0lHjuWwrPXmza+LiOWJ7hvB/QFg== X-Received: by 10.107.2.210 with SMTP id 201mr7637392ioc.67.1481988874456; Sat, 17 Dec 2016 07:34:34 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.36.192.67 with HTTP; Sat, 17 Dec 2016 07:34:33 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: <20161216173930.GD90401@zxy.spb.ru> <85F3F813-D821-439B-B700-DCE51C53E035@FreeBSD.org> From: Brandon Allbery Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2016 15:34:33 +0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Upgrading boot from GPT(BIOS) to GPT(UEFI) To: =?UTF-8?Q?Fernando_Herrero_Carr=C3=B3n?= Cc: Warner Losh , Antony Uspensky , Eric van Gyzen , Dimitry Andric , freebsd-stable , Slawa Olhovchenkov Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.23 X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2016 15:34:35 -0000 On Sat, Dec 17, 2016 at 9:29 AM, Fernando Herrero Carr=C3=B3n wrote: > * While getting to FreeBSD's loader seems a bit faster (or maybe that's > just confirmation bias), bringing up the system does not seem much faster= . > Aside from working around some buggy boot BIOSes, the main speedup would be not having to do a staged load in 16 bit mode with only 1MB RAM accessible. I don't think this will be that noticeable. --=20 brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associate= s allbery.b@gmail.com ballbery@sinenomine.ne= t unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad http://sinenomine.ne= t