Re: UEFI booting survey

2017-12-19 Thread Warner Losh
On Tue, Dec 19, 2017 at 9:06 PM, Mark Millard wrote: > [The usdcard in my rpi2 example does not contain any kernel files, > nor any dtb files. Only the USB SSD stick does. The kernel and dtb > do not come from the usdcard. This is what I'm not sure if it is > generally supported or not.] > > On 2

Re: UEFI booting survey

2017-12-19 Thread Mark Millard
[The usdcard in my rpi2 example does not contain any kernel files, nor any dtb files. Only the USB SSD stick does. The kernel and dtb do not come from the usdcard. This is what I'm not sure if it is generally supported or not.] On 2017-Dec-19, at 7:26 PM, Warner Losh wrote: > On Dec 19, 2017 4:2

Re: UEFI booting survey

2017-12-19 Thread Warner Losh
On Dec 19, 2017 4:26 PM, "Mark Millard" wrote: On 2017-Dec-19, at 1:49 PM, Warner Losh wrote: > > > On Dec 19, 2017 10:58 AM, "Mark Millard" wrote: >> On 2017-Dec-18, at 2:37 PM, Warner Losh wrote: >> >> > . . . >> > >> > Or the following pseudo-code with all the weird special cases removed

Re: UEFI booting survey

2017-12-19 Thread Warner Losh
On Dec 19, 2017 3:38 PM, "Oliver Pinter" wrote: On Tuesday, December 19, 2017, Warner Losh wrote: > On Dec 18, 2017 6:06 PM, "Rodney W. Grimes" < > freebsd-...@pdx.rh.cn85.dnsmgr.net> wrote: > > > On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 3:12 PM, Mark Millard > wrote: > > > > > Warner Losh imp at bsdimp.com

Re: UEFI booting survey

2017-12-19 Thread Mark Millard
On 2017-Dec-19, at 1:49 PM, Warner Losh wrote: > > > On Dec 19, 2017 10:58 AM, "Mark Millard" wrote: >> On 2017-Dec-18, at 2:37 PM, Warner Losh wrote: >> >> > . . . >> > >> > Or the following pseudo-code with all the weird special cases removed for >> > clarity >> > >> > load loader.efi fr

Re: UEFI booting survey

2017-12-19 Thread Nathan Whitehorn
On 12/19/17 14:38, Oliver Pinter wrote: On Tuesday, December 19, 2017, Warner Losh wrote: [snip] Or the following pseudo-code with all the weird special cases removed for clarity load loader.efi from ESP if Boot uefi variable holds a second path, use that for root/kernel otherwise if

Re: UEFI booting survey

2017-12-19 Thread Oliver Pinter
On Tuesday, December 19, 2017, Warner Losh wrote: > On Dec 18, 2017 6:06 PM, "Rodney W. Grimes" < > freebsd-...@pdx.rh.cn85.dnsmgr.net> wrote: > > > On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 3:12 PM, Mark Millard > wrote: > > > > > Warner Losh imp at bsdimp.com wrote on > > > Mon Dec 18 20:29:45 UTC 2017 : > > >

Re: UEFI booting survey

2017-12-19 Thread Warner Losh
On Dec 19, 2017 12:26 PM, "Mark Millard" wrote: [I forgot to list the .dtb file with the kernel and world.] On 2017-Dec-19, at 9:58 AM, Mark Millard wrote: > On 2017-Dec-18, at 2:37 PM, Warner Losh wrote: > >> . . . >> >> Or the following pseudo-code with all the weird special cases removed f

Re: UEFI booting survey

2017-12-19 Thread Warner Losh
On Dec 19, 2017 10:58 AM, "Mark Millard" wrote: On 2017-Dec-18, at 2:37 PM, Warner Losh wrote: > . . . > > Or the following pseudo-code with all the weird special cases removed for clarity > > load loader.efi from ESP > if Boot uefi variable holds a second path, use that for root/kernel > o

Re: UEFI booting survey

2017-12-19 Thread Warner Losh
On Dec 18, 2017 6:06 PM, "Rodney W. Grimes" < freebsd-...@pdx.rh.cn85.dnsmgr.net> wrote: > On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 3:12 PM, Mark Millard wrote: > > > Warner Losh imp at bsdimp.com wrote on > > Mon Dec 18 20:29:45 UTC 2017 : > > > > > The specific thing we will stop doing is that in the absence of

Re: UEFI booting survey

2017-12-19 Thread Mark Millard
[I forgot to list the .dtb file with the kernel and world.] On 2017-Dec-19, at 9:58 AM, Mark Millard wrote: > On 2017-Dec-18, at 2:37 PM, Warner Losh wrote: > >> . . . >> >> Or the following pseudo-code with all the weird special cases removed for >> clarity >> >> load loader.efi from ESP >

Re: UEFI booting survey

2017-12-19 Thread Mark Millard
On 2017-Dec-18, at 2:37 PM, Warner Losh wrote: > . . . > > Or the following pseudo-code with all the weird special cases removed for > clarity > > load loader.efi from ESP > if Boot uefi variable holds a second path, use that for root/kernel > otherwise if an override variable holds a kern

Re: RFC: Removing hpt* drivers from GENERIC

2017-12-19 Thread Colin Percival
On 10/25/17 15:56, O'Connor, Daniel wrote: >> On 26 Oct 2017, at 08:13, Colin Percival wrote: >> [Proposal for removing hpt* drivers since hpt27xx and hptnr take a long >> time to in DEVICE_PROBE.] > > Seems sensible to me, but also worth contacting the blob authors if > possible and asking them