GSoC Project: EFI on amd64/i386

[Eric McCorkle]

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On 05/16/12 01:32, Andrey V. Elsukov wrote:

> As i see we already have sys/boot/efi/libefi/efipart.c that uses
> EFI BLOCK_IO_PROTOCOL to make "part" devsw. EFI BLOCK_IO_PROTOCOL
> provides access to each disk and partition. AFAIK it supports only
> GPT and MBR+EBR, so there might be some problems with ZFS support,
> because we can use ZFS atop of BSD partition.
> 

I'd need to take a look, but if the efi loaders are not directly
calling the EFI_BLOCK_IO_PROTOCOL functions, then it should be easy to
implement a layer that understands BSDlabels.  IA64 might have a solution.

Then again, is a BSDlabel really necessary on a GPT disk?
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