FreeBSD 15 snapshot with UFS Flash

Greetings,

Recently, I bought a system with 256 of UFS flash (UFS here is
Universal Flash Storage, a system that presents flash to the host as a
SCSI device).  I grabbed the latest snapshot (15.0 20250718) and put
it on a USB stick. It just worked, though there's a couple of rough
edges I'll document here.

To boot and install, I needed disable SECURE BOOT so I wouldn't boot
into windows. I did that by pressing and holding <DEL> as the system
booted and disabling in the Security section. I had a Minisforum S-100
system with 256GB
(https://refurbished.minisforum.com/products/minisforum-s100-refurbished
may have the 128GB version). Once I disabled secure boot, I selected
the USB stick to boot. FreeBSD came right up.

However, the ufshci library isn't in the GENERIC kernel yet, and
devmatch didn't automatically load it for me. So I had to stop at the
first prompt to get a shell, 'kldload ufshci' and then 'gpart destroy
-F da1' to remove the windows install.  I then did a normal ZFS guided
install.

Once I got done with all that, I had to edit /boot/loader.confg to add
'ufshci_load=YES' at the end before I rebooted. And my system was
good. If you forget, you can load /boot/kernel/kernel,
/boot/kernel/zfs.ko and /boot/kernel/ufshci.ko at the command prompt
in the loader.

This was all way less pain than I'd prepared for. The system is
decently fast, but nowhere near as fast as my server machines. I've
not yet tried to put a X11 on it, since I still need it for UFS
testing for future submissions and to fix a couple of rough edges for
a few things I've done in CAM before 15.0 goes out the door.

Warner