u-boot efi option

[Emmanuel Vadot]

 I've never had any problem with it (I know it doesn't really answer to
your question).
 SuSe have switch to EFI (the main developer for U-Boot
EFI is from SuSe), OpenBSD too.

 The main problem right now for people to test is that the partition
on the arm images that we provide aren't aligned for it to work. 

 I either need to fix the bug for non 512kb-aligned partition or
aligned them in the release scripts.

 Also I don't know which ports-tree re@ is using for snapshots. I think
that they use the latest quarterly for release and stable.
 So we have to be carefull when we will switch the ports to UEFI.

 In the meantime don't hesitate to test with my patch.

 If you have the correct dtb in /dtb/ on the msdos part U-Boot will load
it.
 For booting automatically just put boot1.efi as /efi/boot/bootarm.efi

On Sun, 2 Oct 2016 16:06:37 -0600
Warner Losh <imp at bsdimp.com> wrote:

> How  long do you think until this is mature enough we can cut over to it?
> There's issues with ubldr on newer u-boot version on some of the platforms
> we support. If we could cut over to this, that would be great.
> 
> Warner
> 
> On Sun, Oct 2, 2016 at 4:37 AM, Emmanuel Vadot <manu at bidouilliste.com> wrote:
> >
> >  Hello,
> >
> >  I've commited every needed change on our side, for uboot side you will
> > need this patch :
> > https://people.freebsd.org/~manu/u-boot_201609_efi.diff
> >
> >  The only drawback is that you will need to have your partition aligned
> > on 512kb boundaries on the mmc.
> >
> >  I've successfully booted my beaglebone black and most of my Allwinner
> > boards with UEFI.
> >
> >  Some part of the uboot patch have started to be upstreamed, for
> > the others I need to rework on some part before I upstream them.
> >
> >  Cheers,
> >
> > On Sun, 2 Oct 2016 19:56:54 +1000
> > Da Rock <freebsd-arm at herveybayaustralia.com.au> wrote:
> >
> >> Has anyone tried this option yet? I've heard someone got it going for
> >> slack, but I thought it sounded like it might make it easier for running
> >> freebsd.
> >>
> >> I'm currently trying to build a more current u-boot to test it.
> >>
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Emmanuel Vadot <manu at bidouilliste.com> <manu at freebsd.org>