Re: Dropping firewire support from boot loader

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
> >
> >
> >
> >
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> Bob Bishop
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