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Date:      Tue, 8 Mar 2016 08:17:44 +0000
From:      krad <kraduk@gmail.com>
To:        Will Green <will@sundivenetworks.com>
Cc:        freebsd-stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Skylake Loader Performance 10.3-BETA3
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Its worth noting you can also select BEs from beastie now as well.

On 7 March 2016 at 22:21, Will Green <will@sundivenetworks.com> wrote:

> On 2016-03-07 17:24, Steven Hartland wrote:
>
>> On 07/03/2016 16:43, Will Green wrote:
>>
>>> On 4 Mar 2016, at 18:49, Mark Dixon <mnd999@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Will Green <will <at> sundivenetworks.com> writes:
>>>>
>>>> I am happy to test patches and/or current on this server if that helps=
.
>>>>> If
>>>>>
>>>> you want more details on the
>>>>
>>>>> motherboard/system I have started a post on it at
>>>>>
>>>> http://buildwithbsd.org/hw/skylake_xeon_server.html
>>>> I've made the UEFI switch which worked fine, but I'm also happy to hel=
p
>>>> out
>>>> with testing if anyone looks at this.
>>>>
>>> Are you booting from ZFS?
>>> Unless I=E2=80=99ve missed something this isn=E2=80=99t yet supported b=
y the installer,
>>> but it is possible to get working manually.
>>>
>>>
>>> Pretty sure you missed something and those changes where merged, imp
>> should be able to confirm.
>>
>
> You're right: that was an error on my part. I've now got ZFS boot working
> with UEFI. :)
>
> I booted the Skylake motherboard with
> FreeBSD-10.3-RC1-amd64-uefi-memstick.img and it successfully installed to
> ZFS *and* loaded at normal speed. Looks like UEFI is the way to go on
> Skylake systems. All tests have gone well so far.
>
> Thanks
>
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