Technological advantages over Linux

Victor Sudakov vas at sibptus.ru
Sat Jul 25 15:37:46 UTC 2020


Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote:
> 
> > ZFS root works. Boot Environments don't work under UEFI (at least
> > partially, or at least under bhyve's UEFI). I suggest a simple test to
> > you.
> 
> 	Have you reported the bug ? Both boot environments and bhyve are
> FreeBSD features so a bug report to FreeBSD would seem to be the way to get
> these fixed unless of course it's already been reported.

I have, the PR is still in the Open state since March:
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=244838

And this PR is probably where I got the memories about shortages in UEFI
support, quoting Kyle Evans: "Currently, only the BIOS loaders can do
the bits needed for activate -t notably, UEFI cannot and userboot
cannot."

Thanks for reminding.

-- 
Victor Sudakov,  VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN
2:5005/49 at fidonet http://vas.tomsk.ru/
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