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 > _______________________________________________ > on-discuss mailing list > on-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/on-discuss
