Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2018 07:37:19 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> To: Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com> Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>, "freebsd-arch@freebsd.org" <arch@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: UEFI Plans / Shifts -- RFC Message-ID: <CANCZdfoSGa%2BuO0Q6z2FOt_0=vSn2F9N%2BdCdysWHLrtpYFV22Tw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20180625091844.GC2430@kib.kiev.ua> References: <CANCZdfoMZXJu2nRbAtLTPc1B4YWWbxsHQjX31zOo%2B8mDwMAQuA@mail.gmail.com> <19341.1529917294@critter.freebsd.dk> <20180625091844.GC2430@kib.kiev.ua>
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On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 3:18 AM, Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 09:01:34AM +0000, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > > -------- > > In message <CANCZdfoMZXJu2nRbAtLTPc1B4YWWbxsHQjX31zOo+8mDwMAQuA@mail. > gmail.com> > > , Warner Losh writes: > > > > >So here's my open questions: > > >(1) Do I need to parse boot.conf? > > > > I can't see how it would add any value on top of UEFI and reading it > > will just keeping old workarounds alive another decade for no good > reason. > > An obvious values is to have serial console earlier than loader.conf is > parsed. At least on typical desktop motherboards which do not have > serial bios redirection, this is important. > This won't work until AFTER we add ACPI to the boot loader. Warner
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