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Date:      Mon, 6 May 2019 14:20:40 -0600
From:      Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
To:        Lev Serebryakov <lev@freebsd.org>
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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On Mon, May 6, 2019 at 1:16 PM Lev Serebryakov <lev@freebsd.org> wrote:

> 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.efi.
>  Thank you!
>
> >
> >     > But then again, if you are using stock (generic) OS on embedded
> >     system, you are already doing it wrong and will get into the trouble
> >     sooner or later:)
> >       I can not say, is NanoBSD "stock" or not :-)
> >
> >
> > 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


Done. commented on the review.

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

UEFI is weird, wrt resets and such.

Warner



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