Hi Eric, On Sat, Oct 12, 2019 at 09:41:50AM -0400, Eric McCorkle wrote: > Hi all, > > I finally got a chance to resume work on FreeBSD support recently. > Here's where things are: > > * I can boot on an EFI platform, however, the efifb driver never turns > the screen on, so the screen is blank until the X11 DRM driver takes > over (I know why this is, see below) > > * grub_install doesn't properly detect what modules to link into the > image, so you have to manually tell it to load whatever you need to > detect the filesystem (ex: zfs, ufs, bsd, etc) > > > Other than that, everything is fine as far as I can tell. > > As for the screen issue, it comes down to a change that I'm looking into > making. The FreeBSD kernel has the ability to send data into the kernel > using what amounts to synthetic loadable modules. It creates ELF images > containing the data synthetically in memory. > > This capacity is used in two ways with an EFI boot: to send EFI terminal > data to the efifb driver, and to pass keys from the loader to the > kernel. The latter is only used for GELI for now, with the older > environment variable method being supported but deprecated. The EFI > terminal data used to be send in via environment variables, but that was > replaced with the synthetic modules method. > > So basically, I need to implement the synthetic modules functionality in > GRUB, assuming it already doesn't exist. > > As for the grub_install problem, I suspect that's just a matter of > debugging it on FreeBSD.
Thank you for doing the work. I am looking forward for your patches. Daniel _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel