UEFI support

2014-11-02 Thread John Nemeth
As some people know, I've been working on adding UEFI support to NetBSD. The work on gpt(8) was only the first portion. I have other stuff that I will probably want to commit soon. This raises the question of where to commit it. UEFI is found on the following types of systems: ia64, x86

Re: UEFI support

2014-11-02 Thread Martin Husemann
On Sun, Nov 02, 2014 at 02:23:58AM -0800, John Nemeth wrote: (64-bit ARM). This means that it will be boot code for several types of systems, and it will be the first quasi-MI bootcode. As such, there is no existing obvious place for where to put it. Let the bikeshedding begin... I would

Re: UEFI support

2014-11-02 Thread n54
From: John Nemeth As some people know, I've been working on adding UEFI support to NetBSD. Great! I was planning to look at ARMv8, but there are two blockers: - clang changes pending (Joerg S. maintains it), - UEFI that I know is done for FreeBSD. Basic support for FreeBSD for ARMv8 is in its