Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2018 09:26:38 -0500 From: Kyle Evans <kevans@freebsd.org> To: Peter Grehan <grehan@freebsd.org> Cc: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd-rwg@pdx.rh.cn85.dnsmgr.net>, "freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org" <freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org>, Marcelo Araujo <araujobsdport@gmail.com> Subject: Re: Issue encountered booting FreeBSD STABLE and CURRENT snapshots with EFI Message-ID: <CACNAnaGquOHH3cPgHm8cMYTs2=advS8cjkDe_8eiNmiPv419qA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <624f4ac2-ada1-64af-1c4f-250d3de551de@freebsd.org> References: <CACNAnaHnwzLNg4sE99eip4x=Gi01-T%2BzXnyt%2BznjpryVhc=Ziw@mail.gmail.com> <201803231812.w2NICLEW032460@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net> <CACNAnaF0SptKBgjgEUAJ3VA3qKcm2yJUn5Z9MJkBbJLV%2BYAxNA@mail.gmail.com> <CACNAnaF9n707yfzAps4pfcvJ4VHa0=K8927uu6X%2B6qnJxuRVoA@mail.gmail.com> <624f4ac2-ada1-64af-1c4f-250d3de551de@freebsd.org>
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On Sat, Mar 24, 2018 at 12:59 AM, Peter Grehan <grehan@freebsd.org> wrote: > Hi Kyle, > >> FYI- I've created PR #2 [1] against the freebsd/uefi-edk2 repository >> and have confirmed that this fixes the broken-looking firmware along >> with the booting problem experienced in this thread. >> >> [1] https://github.com/freebsd/uefi-edk2/pull/2 > > > Thanks - merged. I've asked Fabian to update the UEFI ports. > Awesome, thanks! =) It didn't seem right to hack around the hack around that was implemented for our formerly bad behavior, but we can look at it again if we run into further problems with the way we do this. I don't think our devpath usage is unreasonable, though- we don't expect these pointers to live forever, just long enough to locate all of the partitions on it. Thanks, Kyle Evans
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