C. Bergstr?m wrote:
> Seth Goldberg wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>>   We're currently in the planning stages for EFI firmware boot 
>> support, and that will most likely require us moving to GRUB2.
>>
> Yes.. this has been discussed by us as well.  In the past solaris kernel 
> wasn't doing any bios calls?

No, the kernel has always done BIOS calls, along with the booter; no way 
out of it.  EFI will obviously change those to EFI calls.

>  Identifying/eliminating those will help 
> this.  This will also allow the booting of 1T+ sized disks if I'm not 
> mistaken?  Feel free to email me off list so that we can discuss how to 
> make the ARC case or start to more accurately plan this.  Vladimir 
> (phcoder) has an initial zfs patch for grub2 that was posted on 
> zfs-discuss recently.  To test it you'll have to binary hack the kernel 
> image or fix this bug..
> 
> http://bugs.opensolaris.org/view_bug.do?bug_id=6691145
> 
> I'll be including it in my next release, but if someone wants to 
> verify/fix it...  Please do as it's there for months..
> 
> ./C
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