EFI ZFS loader successful load and boot

[Eric McCorkle]

Updates: with a new kernel, and the vt terminal, this works fine. 

Unfortunately, the patch doesn't seem to work with a buildworld build (I was doing make from within the directories). This is related to a hack I do of copying zfs.c into the efi loader directory so it can be built with fPIC. The build system seems to get tripped up in mkdep as a result. 

Could someone with more knowledge of the build system give me some pointers here? Otherwise, is all set for testing. 

On May 23, 2015 5:55:15 PM EDT, Eric McCorkle <eric at metricspace.net> wrote:
>One thing I forgot to mention here, my kernel is severely out of date,
>as around October of last year, the blank screen on resume issue showed
>up.
>
>I'll try updating to the latest and see if that helps.
>
>On 05/23/2015 05:45 PM, Eric McCorkle wrote:
>
>> There is also one other issue, which I think is the fault of my
>hardware...
>> 
>> When I boot a kernel in EFI mode, it prints info about the EFI
>console,
>> then the screen freezes.  However, I can tell that the kernel and OS
>> finish booting, because functions like suspend-on-lid-close and the
>> power button work as normal after a while.  However, when waking from
>> suspend, the screen is just blank.
>> 
>> This resembles an issue I've had with this particular laptop, which
>I've
>> reported before on the ACPI list.  Given this as well as basic common
>> sense, I think it's extremely unlikely that this issue arises as a
>> result of my modifications to loader.
>> 
>> If anyone out there has a ZFS-based system and can confirm or deny
>this,
>> that would be extremely useful information.
>> 
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Eric
>> 

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