Re: [oi-dev] [developer] HEADS UP: illumos supports booting from EFI-labeled disks now, including large disks and whole-disk vdevs

[Andrew M. Hettinger]

I will try to do some testing on this this week or next.

This is actually kind of a big deal for me. EFI disks make replacing boot
disks a much simpler procedure.

Thanks for these, guys!

Andrew Hettinger
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Alexander Pyhalov  wrote on 03/03/2015 04:00:05 PM:
>
> Dan McDonald писал 01.03.2015 20:58:
> > Are these mods to Caiman?  Can you share?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Dan
> >
>
> Hello.
> I'd like to get some reviews, testing and perhaps assistance on the
> following code - https://github.com/pyhalov/slim_source/tree/efi_install
>
> These are modifications to OI text installer which allow installation on
> EFI-labeled disks.
> Note, it's more proof of concept code, which needs further cleanup and
> testing.
>
> What is tested and should be working:
> Default (whole_root) installation on EFI-labeled disk
> Default (whole_root) installation on empty disk (creates EFI-labeled
> disk)
>
> What is known to be broken:
> slice management inside partitions on x86 (explicitly disabled for now)
>
> What is likely to be broken (not-tested):
> - non whole-root installation
> - any other installation method :)
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Re: [oi-dev] [developer] HEADS UP: illumos supports booting from EFI-labeled disks now, including large disks and whole-disk vdevs

[Alexander Pyhalov]

Dan McDonald писал 01.03.2015 20:58:

Are these mods to Caiman?  Can you share?

Thanks,
Dan



Hello.
I'd like to get some reviews, testing and perhaps assistance on the 
following code - https://github.com/pyhalov/slim_source/tree/efi_install


These are modifications to OI text installer which allow installation on 
EFI-labeled disks.
Note, it's more proof of concept code, which needs further cleanup and 
testing.


What is tested and should be working:
Default (whole_root) installation on EFI-labeled disk
Default (whole_root) installation on empty disk (creates EFI-labeled 
disk)


What is known to be broken:
slice management inside partitions on x86 (explicitly disabled for now)

What is likely to be broken (not-tested):
- non whole-root installation
- any other installation method :)
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System Administrator of Southern Federal University Computer Center


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Re: [oi-dev] [HEADSUP] X server update in OpenIndiana Hipster

[Jean-Pierre André]

Hi Ken,

ken mays via oi-dev wrote:

Hello,

The lockdown (pkg freeze) is needed mainly on the XServer and Intel driver.
You need to maintain Intel driver's 2.6.3 or 2.9.1 for XServer 1.7.7.


I assume you mean Intel driver 2.9.1 is compatible with
current Xorg server 1.7.7, but where is it to be found ?

The latest hipster ships with 2.99.917 (not compatible
with Xorg) and older one shipped with 2.6.3 (probably
not compatible with my hardware). An intermediate
version compatible with both Xorg server and hardware
would be nice...

Jean-Pierre



If you've updated to hipster-2014.1, you've done well enough.

Thanks,
Ken




On Monday, March 2, 2015 6:43 AM, Nikola M  wrote:



On 02/28/15 04:22 PM, Jean-Pierre André wrote:
 > Hi Alexander,
 >
 > Alexander Pyhalov wrote:
 > [...]
 >> I think we can look at downgrading
 >> intel drivers to something like 2.9 (or even 2.6) which still supported
 >> UMS until KMS work is ready. I don't know how much work it'll take to
 >> make this crap work with new Xorg server, so no promises on time frame
 >> for now. Until then you can use vesa.
 >
 > I have a computer with Intel graphics and Hipster
 > 20140701 installed. Xorg refuses to use intel_drv.so
 > and falls back on using vesa_drv.so, I understand
 > this is not going to improve soon.
 >
 > The fall back to vesa is totally unusable because the
 > brigthness is forced to maximum and hurts the eyes and
 > the slider for brightness on "Power Management" has no
 > effect.
 >
 > Is there another way to adjust the brightness level with
 > the vesa driver ?
 >
 > Jean-Pierre
Hello, Jean-Pierre,

I found a workaround that could be used, if everyone declares that newer
packages in hipster-2015
will not depend on newer X and Intel driver that is non working yet.
(and that could allow testing if it is needed when things improve.

You update to latest hipster-2014.1 or install from 20141010 ISO if it
is new install,
or in a working BE for your intel hardware,
and you enter: (with pfexec or sudo)
pfexec pkg freeze consolidation/X/X-incorporation
pfexec pkg freeze x11/server/xorg/driver/xorg-video-intel

And then add new repository (pkg set-publisher-g , -G to remove old) if
needed, and update (pkg update -v).

That way , if new packages you have installed does not depend on newer X
and intel driver that does not work, you get same packages as
hipster-2015 except X and intel driver consolidations.
And hopefully newer packages won't depend on them, until it is once
solved in illumos and you unfreeze them.



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