svn commit: r46954 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status

Sun Jul 12 18:50:20 UTC 2015

Author: wblock
Date: Sun Jul 12 18:50:19 2015
New Revision: 46954
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/46954

Log:
  Add Eric McCorkle <eric at metricspace.net>'s report on UEFI ZFS booting.

Modified:
  head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-04-2015-06.xml

Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-04-2015-06.xml
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--- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-04-2015-06.xml	Sun Jul 12 18:41:14 2015	(r46953)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-04-2015-06.xml	Sun Jul 12 18:50:19 2015	(r46954)
@@ -248,4 +248,50 @@
     </help>
   </project>
 
+  <project cat='misc'>
+    <title>ZFS Support for UEFI Boot/Loader</title>
+
+    <contact>
+      <person>
+	<name>
+	  <given>Eric</given>
+	  <common>McCorkle</common>
+	</name>
+	<email>emc2 at metricspace.net</email>
+      </person>
+    </contact>
+
+    <body>
+      <p>UEFI-enabled <tt>boot1.efi</tt> and <tt>loader.efi</tt> have
+	been modified to support loading and booting from a ZFS
+	filesystem.  The patch currently works with
+	<tt>buildworld</tt>, and successfully boots on a test machine
+	with a ZFS partition.  In addition, the ZFS-enabled
+	<tt>loader.efi</tt> can be treated as a chainloader using
+	ZFS-enabled GRUB.</p>
+
+      <p>The work on <tt>boot1.efi</tt> also reorganizes the code
+	somewhat, splitting out the filesystem-specific parts into a
+	modular framework.</p>
+    </body>
+
+    <help>
+      <task>
+	<p>More testing needed for the following uses: ZFS with
+	  GRUB+<tt>loader.efi</tt>, ZFS with
+	  <tt>boot1</tt>+<tt>loader.efi</tt>, UFS with
+	  <tt>boot1</tt>+<tt>loader.efi</tt> (test modularization of
+	  <tt>boot1.efi</tt>)</p>
+      </task>
+
+      <task>
+	<p>Have <tt>boot1.efi</tt> check partition type GUIDs before
+	  probing for filesystems.</p>
+      </task>
+
+      <task>
+	<p>Get patch accepted upstream and committed.</p>
+      </task>
+    </help>
+  </project>
 </report>
