Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2001 18:12:13 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: <cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org>, <cvs-all@FreeBSD.org>, Doug Rabson <dfr@FreeBSD.org> Subject: RE: cvs commit: src/sys/boot/efi/libefi efifs.c Makefile efiboot Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0109071810370.54058-100000@herring.nlsystems.com> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.010907100548.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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On Fri, 7 Sep 2001, John Baldwin wrote: > > On 07-Sep-01 Doug Rabson wrote: > > On Fri, 7 Sep 2001, John Baldwin wrote: > > > >> > >> On 07-Sep-01 Doug Rabson wrote: > >> > dfr 2001/09/07 01:51:48 PDT > >> > > >> > Modified files: > >> > sys/boot/efi/libefi Makefile efiboot.h > >> > Added files: > >> > sys/boot/efi/libefi efifs.c > >> > Log: > >> > Add a libstand filesystem for accessing EFI native filesystems. > >> > >> Woot! So how far along are you know? Can you read a kernel into memory > >> now? > > > > Of course not :-). I can open the file and read some bytes from it. > > Hmmm, ok. So what's stopping you from opening the file named "kernel" and > sticking its bytes in one contiguous slab in memory? :) Granted, the current > kernel doesn't have any sort of non-ski console driver AFAIK. I haven't written the backend hooks for the ELF loader yet. I also haven't written the trampoline which turns on paging and starts the kernel. Actually, I was hoping that Peter would wave a magic wand and get a SKI version of loader going so that I can debug some of that hairy low-level code in a forgiving environment. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Phone: +44 20 8348 6160 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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