CTF: UEFI HTTP boot support

Warner Losh imp at bsdimp.com
Wed Jun 17 18:12:13 UTC 2020


On Wed, Jun 17, 2020 at 12:06 PM Rebecca Cran <rebecca at bsdio.com> wrote:

>
> > On Jun 17, 2020, at 11:40 AM, Rodney W. Grimes <
> freebsd-rwg at gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> wrote:
> >
> > Does FreeBSD kernel have a driver that can talk to the UEFI ramdisk?
>
> I’m fairly sure UEFI generates it as a standard CD drive.
>

I missed the start of this thread, so maybe I'm missing a key detail.
However, I thought UEFI didn't have a RAM-disk, per se, but that we could
load memory areas and pass that into the kernel using freebsd-only methods.
But UEFI is a bit weird, so maybe it will generate a virtual cdrom...

Warner


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