Update on EFI work: refactoring ready for testing, GELI coming very soon

[Eric McCorkle]

> On May 16, 2016, at 04:51, Naomichi Nonaka <nao at enuenu.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi Eric.
> 
>> On 2016/05/16 5:37, Eric McCorkle wrote:
>> How close is that patch to going in?
>> 
>> Something like this would be pretty straightforward following the
>> refactoring; however, its worth considering all the options here:
>> 
>> * GRUB works fine pulling loader off the disk, with either ZFS or UFS,
>> with no boot1 at all. This was my setup for developing the ZFS support,
>> actually.
> 
> Is Grub + loader really work in EFI mode ?
> 
> My test results are
> 1) Grub's kfreebsd command does not support loader.efi
> 2) Chainload loader.efi in Grub couldn't show display. maybe it work in keadless but I didn't tested headless mode.
> 3) Chaiload boot1.efi in Grub works.
> 
> That is why I wrote PR#207940. Maybe I miss something. So, If anyone successed to boot in Grub + loader.efi combination, please let me know.

Strange.  The chainloader method works on one of my laptops.  It's possible that a patch since then has broken that.  I know somebody ported the loader menu at some point.  Prior to that, it was just a loader shell, and that did work.  I'll try updating that laptop and see if it still works.