Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2001 12:01:14 +0000 (GMT) From: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> To: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> Cc: "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@kdm.org>, <ia64@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Porting the loader Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0103071157050.28771-100000@herring.nlsystems.com> In-Reply-To: <200103070046.f270kVL02847@mass.dis.org>
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On Tue, 6 Mar 2001, Mike Smith wrote: > > > > Any idea whether FreeBSD will have to use the same scheme of having a DOS > > partition in order to run the loader? > > You have to have a FAT partition; that's required by EFI. My initial > proposal was to have a boot2 equivalent living there, so that the loader > itself was still in the UFS filesystem. One interesting possibility would be to write an EFI driver for the UFS filesystem. This interface could automatically be added to any suitably typed partitions found by the firmware and would make it possible for the firmware to load files right out of the booting filesystem. One would still need a FAT partition to hold the UFS driver, unless Intel could be convinced to include it in the firmware itself (not terribly likely, I guess). -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Phone: +44 20 8348 6160 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ia64" in the body of the message
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