On Tuesday, February 27, 2018 11:38:40 AM Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > > On Tuesday, February 27, 2018 09:28:49 AM Kyle Evans wrote: > > > On Sun, Feb 25, 2018 at 9:16 PM, Warner Losh <i...@freebsd.org> wrote: > > > > Author: imp > > > > Date: Mon Feb 26 03:16:04 2018 > > > > New Revision: 330004 > > > > URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/330004 > > > > > > > > Log: > > > > Add NO_OBJ to those directories that don't make anything. > > > > > > > > For directories that don't many anything, add NO_OBJ=t just before we > > > > include bsd.init.mk. This prevents them from creating an OBJ > > > > directory. In addition, prevent defs.mk from creating the machine > > > > related links in these cases. They aren't needed and break, at least > > > > on stable, the read-only src tree build. > > > > > > > > > > Any objection to also removing efi from i386 SUBDIR? It seems silly > > > to be explicitly adding it when we know nothing here is applicable and > > > it's going to take some amount of work to get there. > > > > Actually, I believe the only thing it needs is for the i386 kernel to > > understand the EFI memory map. If you made the i386 EFI loader fake up the > > SMAP metadata from the EFI memory map you could probably boot an unmodified > > i386 kernel. (It would be better to teach the i386 kernel to handle the EFI > > memory map though.) It's more a matter of does someone care enough to > > actually get a test environment going to test it. > > I may have some of the test pieces in place in the form of ipxe32.efi > and network booting. I just cant rember which piece of hardware > triggered that path in my configuration, I had to force it to legacy > bios mode to get it working. > > > One would also eventually want to teach the i386 kernel about efifb as well > > as EFI runtime services, but that shouldn't be strictly required for booting > > an i386 kernel via EFI. > > How much of that could be done in bhyve with a different compile of edk2?
It could be done, but I've never built edk2 for bhyve. I believe there are existing EFI32 blobs for qemu though and that is probably a quicker route to getting this working (it is what I would do if I worked on it). -- John Baldwin _______________________________________________ svn-src-all@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-all-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"