git: 0b7472b3d8d2 - main - Mount the EFI system partition (ESP) on newly-installed systems.

[Warner Losh]

On Sat, Feb 27, 2021, 8:01 PM Brandon Bergren <bdragon at freebsd.org> wrote:

> On Sat, Feb 27, 2021, at 8:39 PM, Warner Losh wrote:
> > > 32-bit Arm can boot via EFI. Just mips* and powerpc*.
> >
> > There was some rumblings of little endian powerpc64 efi, but I don't
> > think it's ready...
>
> I've never heard of such things. PAPR/LoPAPR/LoPAR (pseries) is specified
> as an OpenFirmware platform, and I don't see that changing in the future
> given the way it's baked into the spec. And PowerNV is a
> minimal-runtime-services platform where the runtime abstraction (OPAL)
> calls don't include any sort of way to access disk devices.
>
> Do you mean alternative firmware for PowerNV? I've heard people talking on
> and off about coreboot, but I don't see that becoming mainstream over the
> petitboot skiroot payload.
>
> I don't see the pseries virtualization requirements changing away from
> OpenFirmware in the future either, given the OpenFirmware requirement has
> been a constant all the way back to CHRP.
>


There was a working group that was defining powerpc bindings that were
being worked on. When I went back to find them again I couldn't, so maybe
they came to naught...

Warner

>
> > Yea, we have long since switched our preferred boot on arm to EFI...
> > though we don't have installer images for 32bit arm, which is this
> > runs... so it's needed for correctness, but not a practical
> > difference...
> >
> > Warner
>
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