Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2001 22:17:15 -0700 From: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>, Doug Rabson <dfr@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/boot/efi/libefi efifs.c Makefile efiboot Message-ID: <20010908051715.DA90A3808@overcee.netplex.com.au> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.010907155057.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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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:
> >> > 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 memor
y
> >> >> 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.
>
> Well, he has the simulator up and running and physical hardware now, so he's
> got no excuse for slacking off. Unless he's finishing up his NFS work. :)
My murphey field struck and caused three drives to depart my file server
raid at an inopportune time. I've essentially lost this week reassembling
it. I've got my data back but have not yet got the machine running again.
Cheers,
-Peter
--
Peter Wemm - peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com; peter@netplex.com.au
"All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5
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