svn commit: r264935 - head/release/amd64

Glen Barber gjb at FreeBSD.org
Fri Apr 25 21:44:58 UTC 2014


On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 02:41:25PM -0700, Nathan Whitehorn wrote:
> 
> On 04/25/14 14:11, Glen Barber wrote:
> >Author: gjb
> >Date: Fri Apr 25 21:11:00 2014
> >New Revision: 264935
> >URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/264935
> >
> >Log:
> >   Add a separate script to build the memstick.img and the
> >   mini-memstick.img with UEFI support.
> >   As the comments in the file suggest, 1) there must
> >   be existing ${.OBJDIR}/usr/src/release/{release,bootonly};
> >   2) TARGET/TARGET_ARCH must be amd64; and 3) it must be
> >   a vt(4)-enabled kernel with vt_efifb (*not* vt_vga).
> >   This script is not hooked into release/Makefile in any way
> >   until further testing is complete.
> >   Sponsored by:	The FreeBSD Foundation
> >
> >Added:
> >   head/release/amd64/make-uefi-memstick.sh   (contents, props changed)
> >
> >
> 
> I understand this is for testing, but is there any reason we can't just have
> one GPT memstick that boots both BIOS and EFI eventually? Or is that the
> plan already?

That is the end goal, and this script does produce both.  I just don't
entirely trust this script yet.

Glen

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