From owner-freebsd-ia64 Sat Mar 30 15:36:39 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-ia64@freebsd.org Received: from kayak.xcllnt.net (209-128-86-226.bayarea.net [209.128.86.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A56037B417 for ; Sat, 30 Mar 2002 15:36:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net (dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net [192.168.4.201]) by kayak.xcllnt.net (8.11.6/8.11.4) with ESMTP id g2UNaab18959 for ; Sat, 30 Mar 2002 15:36:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marcel@kayak.pn.xcllnt.net) Received: from dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g2UNab9X002714 for ; Sat, 30 Mar 2002 15:36:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marcel@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net) Received: (from marcel@localhost) by dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net (8.12.2/8.12.2/Submit) id g2UNab72002713 for ia64@FreeBSD.org; Sat, 30 Mar 2002 15:36:37 -0800 (PST) Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2002 15:36:36 -0800 From: Marcel Moolenaar To: ia64@FreeBSD.org Subject: Update your EFI bootloader. Message-ID: <20020330233636.GA2687@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i Sender: owner-freebsd-ia64@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Gang, It is adviced to update your EFI loader as soon a conveniently possible. It is harmless to update the kernel without updating the EFI loader for now, but this may not hold for future kernels. The relevant changes are to pass the address of the bootinfo block from the loader to the kernel in a register (r8), and not use a hardwired address for this. The kernel still looks at the hardwired address, but does check if it has been passed in r8 as well. FYI, -- Marcel Moolenaar USPA: A-39004 marcel@xcllnt.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ia64" in the body of the message