Re: ESRT support for the amd64 bootloader

2023-01-03 Thread Mike Larkin
On Wed, Dec 28, 2022 at 09:13:16PM +0100, Mark Kettenis wrote: > Dear Sergii, > > Sorry for the delay, but I have finally found the time to work on the > EFI variable and ESRT support for OpenBSD. As a first step, here is a > diff that adds support for copying the ESRT in the bootloader and > pas

Re: ESRT support for the amd64 bootloader

2023-01-03 Thread Mike Larkin
On Mon, Jan 02, 2023 at 05:52:12PM +, Peter Stuge wrote: > Mark Kettenis wrote: > > patrick@, mlarkin@, yasuoka@ and other devs: ok? > > Do what you have to do, but I plead to avoid (U)EFI lock-in as far as > technically possible, since most (U)EFI implementations are not open > source, and th

Re: ESRT support for the amd64 bootloader

2023-01-02 Thread Peter Stuge
Mark Kettenis wrote: > patrick@, mlarkin@, yasuoka@ and other devs: ok? Do what you have to do, but I plead to avoid (U)EFI lock-in as far as technically possible, since most (U)EFI implementations are not open source, and that does exist. I understand too well that (U)EFI is the modern popular f

Re: ESRT support for the amd64 bootloader

2022-12-31 Thread Jeremie Courreges-Anglas
On Wed, Dec 28 2022, Mark Kettenis wrote: > Dear Sergii, > > Sorry for the delay, but I have finally found the time to work on the > EFI variable and ESRT support for OpenBSD. As a first step, here is a > diff that adds support for copying the ESRT in the bootloader and > passing it on to the ker

ESRT support for the amd64 bootloader

2022-12-28 Thread Mark Kettenis
Dear Sergii, Sorry for the delay, but I have finally found the time to work on the EFI variable and ESRT support for OpenBSD. As a first step, here is a diff that adds support for copying the ESRT in the bootloader and passing it on to the kernel. I adjusted your diff a bit. It now adds the new