svn commit: r264935 - head/release/amd64

Nathan Whitehorn nwhitehorn at freebsd.org
Fri Apr 25 21:46:49 UTC 2014


On 04/25/14 14:44, Glen Barber wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 02:41:25PM -0700, Nathan Whitehorn wrote:
>> On 04/25/14 14:11, Glen Barber wrote:
>>> Author: gjb
>>> Date: Fri Apr 25 21:11:00 2014
>>> New Revision: 264935
>>> URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/264935
>>>
>>> Log:
>>>    Add a separate script to build the memstick.img and the
>>>    mini-memstick.img with UEFI support.
>>>    As the comments in the file suggest, 1) there must
>>>    be existing ${.OBJDIR}/usr/src/release/{release,bootonly};
>>>    2) TARGET/TARGET_ARCH must be amd64; and 3) it must be
>>>    a vt(4)-enabled kernel with vt_efifb (*not* vt_vga).
>>>    This script is not hooked into release/Makefile in any way
>>>    until further testing is complete.
>>>    Sponsored by:	The FreeBSD Foundation
>>>
>>> Added:
>>>    head/release/amd64/make-uefi-memstick.sh   (contents, props changed)
>>>
>>>
>> I understand this is for testing, but is there any reason we can't just have
>> one GPT memstick that boots both BIOS and EFI eventually? Or is that the
>> plan already?
> That is the end goal, and this script does produce both.  I just don't
> entirely trust this script yet.
>
> Glen
>

I appreciate the caution. Thanks for the clarification! I'm planning to 
get EFI support into the installer this weekend.
-Nathan


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