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Date:      Mon, 6 May 2019 22:16:46 +0300
From:      Lev Serebryakov <lev@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
Cc:        Toomas Soome <tsoome@me.com>, Rebecca Cran <bcran@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: GPT boot has less features than legacy MBR-based one (Was: UEFI,  loader.efi and /boot.config)
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From: Lev Serebryakov <lev@FreeBSD.org>
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To: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
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Subject: Re: GPT boot has less features than legacy MBR-based one (Was: UEFI,
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On 01.05.2019 0:15, Warner Losh wrote:

> I think all the features are there. You can install loader.efi as you
> used to install boot1.efi and have it work as well or better than boot1=
=2Eefi.
 Thank you!

>=20
>     > But then again, if you are using stock (generic) OS on embedded
>     system, you are already doing it wrong and will get into the troubl=
e
>     sooner or later:)
>     =C2=A0 I can not say, is NanoBSD "stock" or not :-)
>=20
>=20
> One of the big reasons I did the latest changes was to make it possible=

> for NanoBSD to work better.
  Could you please look at, which helps NanoBSD to work better with
strange/broken hardware?

https://reviews.freebsd.org/D17102
https://reviews.freebsd.org/D17103

 (I don't know do we need this for UEFI loader, though).

--=20
// Lev Serebryakov


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