Reposting from illumos developer list, sorry if you have seen it already:
Hi!
While working on https://www.illumos.org/rb/r/284/
<https://www.illumos.org/rb/r/284/>, I figured I do not have any way to test
this stuff… So I did ask qemu to provide me SMB3 64-bit entry point and got the
loader code verified at least on qemu.
So I couldn’t resist the challenge, and also did create
https://www.illumos.org/rb/r/291/ <https://www.illumos.org/rb/r/291/> and did
test it on qemu. However, as nice as the qemu is, real hardware is still not
tested, so I’m asking for some help there:)
So I did generate iso and usb images and set them up on http://80.235.90.220
<http://80.235.90.220/> and would like to ask to test…
The SMB3 64-bit entry point can be provided by BIOS/UEFI systems, the UEFI boot
is most obvious for testing, the steps to verify are:
1. boot with UEFI enabled (depends on bios settings/boot device selection)
2. press esc on loader menu to get ok prompt
3. enter: configuration
you should get efi-systab info, and if you see SMBIOS3 entry, your system has
64-bit SMBIOS entry point.
Note you can dump the content of the entry point from ok prompt by entering:
address_from_configuration_command 0x1f dump # for SMBIOS3 entry the length is
0x18
4. enter: show
and scroll to smbios.* entries, you should see entries and version 3.0.
5. enter: boot
(note those images do not have xhci included)
and hopefully you should get to the point to enter terminal and get illumos
prompt - you do not need to install it, just get to “live” mode by selecting
terminal session after language and keyboard layout dialogs.
from illumos:
check output of hostid, prtdiag and finally:
smbios -e # should list entry point info, _SM_ is for 32bit 2.1+ entry point,
_SM3_ is for 64-bit
smbios # should list smbios data (using libsmbios interface)
smbios [-e] /dev/xsvc # should also list smbios info (but using alternate
method via memory mapping).
Note you can also check the loader environment from os prompt: tr ‘\0’ ‘\n’ <
/system/boot/environment
thanks,
toomas
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