Hi Mark, Any news? I since setup gdb debugging of OVMF and figured out my EFI RT issues and it returns data fine now (was wrong calling ABI), but I'm not making /dev/efi as it sounds like you've done it already. Where are you at with this? Can I help to move this forward?
Cheers, Sergii On Tue, Aug 23, 2022 at 07:52:42PM +0300, Sergii Dmytruk wrote: > Hi Mark, > > > I have done some work on adding support for EFI runtime services on > > OpenBSD/amd64, based on the code for OpenBSD/arm64. My plan was to > > implement an ioctl(2) interface that is compatible with FreeBSD's > > <sys/efiio.h> interface. Theo objected to putting EFI-related headers > > in /usr/include/sys, so the EFI-related headers will probably end up > > in /usr/include/dev/efi (so you'd be include <dev/efi/efiio.h> > > instead). > > Great to hear that you went with FreeBSD's API. It's a natural choice > for DragonBSD, and NetBSD chose compatible API on AArch64, so it sounds > like all BSDs will have an almost identical API. Having header in a > different location is a minor thing. > > I too was trying to make EFI RT work in [1], it doesn't crash the > kernel by now, but GetTime() doesn't return proper data either. > > [1]: > https://github.com/3mdeb/openbsd-src/compare/esrt...3mdeb:openbsd-src:efi-vars > > > I hope to have some time to make progress on this next week, so let me > > come back to you then. > > Is the code available anywhere? > > By the way, do you plan to have something like `libefivar` provided as > part of OpenBSD? > > Cheers, > Sergii
