Re: Dropping firewire support from boot loader

Hi Bob,

Thanks for trying all this out. I'm going to go ahead and retire it. If
someone wants to bring it back after testing and fixing, we can talk about
it then.

Warner

On Fri, Nov 18, 2022 at 5:30 AM <rb@gid.co.uk> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> It doesn’t seem to work. Building with LOADER_FIREWIRE_SUPPORT doesn’t
> actually get libfirewire.a built but adding the subdir to the list fixes
> that.
>
> The resulting loader booted from a USB stick goes BTX Halted straight away.
>
> > On 12 Nov 2022, at 20:49, Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > On Sat, Nov 12, 2022, 1:25 PM Bob Bishop <rb@gid.co.uk> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Well, the kernel support ‘just works’ so installing on to a firewire
> disk is straightforward; just load up firewire.ko and sbp.ko, and the disk
> comes up through CAM.
> >
> > However, I couldn’t get the loader to see the disk; I don’t think this
> build of the loader includes the firewire bits. Not helped on my hardware
> because the BIOS doesn’t have firewire disk boot support.
> >
> > Firmware isn't built by default. You need a special build for that...
> what is loading /boot/loader? Not sure you could boot the system with it if
> the bios doesn't support it (except by having a tiny disk that the BIOS
> understands and using that to boot off the fireworks root).
> >
> > Warner
> >
> > Warner
> >
> > > On 10 Nov 2022, at 21:53, Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > I've created a diff: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D37334
> > >
> > > Warner
> > >
> > > On Thu, Nov 10, 2022 at 3:07 AM Bob Bishop <rb@gid.co.uk> wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > > On 9 Nov 2022, at 23:55, Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > On Wed, Nov 9, 2022 at 3:42 PM Mark Millard <marklmi@yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> > > > Warner Losh <imp_at_bsdimp.com> wrote on
> > > > Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2022 20:01:41 UTC :
> > > >
> > > > > I'd like to drop firewire support from the boot loader. It's not
> been used
> > > > > in quite some time, as far as I can tell. Nor have I (or anybody
> else)
> > > > > tested it in forever.
> > > > >
> > > > > Is anybody still using it? Does anybody know if it works? Any
> objections to
> > > > > removing it from FreeBSD 14?
> > >
> > > I think I still have hardware that will do this. I can check it out if
> anyone cares...
> > >
> > > > I would suggest that old PowerMac's might be the most
> > > > likely usage context.
> > > >
> > > > Right now, though, this is an i386 only feature...
> > > >
> > > > Warner
> > >
> > > --
> > > Bob Bishop
> > > rb@gid.co.uk
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> > --
> > Bob Bishop
> > rb@gid.co.uk
> >
> >
> >
> >
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