svn commit: r47616 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status

Sun Oct 18 21:12:22 UTC 2015

Author: bjk
Date: Sun Oct 18 21:12:21 2015
New Revision: 47616
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/47616

Log:
  Add ZFS/UEFI bootloader report from Eric McCorkle

Modified:
  head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-07-2015-09.xml

Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-07-2015-09.xml
==============================================================================

--- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-07-2015-09.xml	Sun Oct 18 13:06:46 2015	(r47615)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-07-2015-09.xml	Sun Oct 18 21:12:21 2015	(r47616)
@@ -2896,4 +2896,46 @@
     </help>
   </project>
 
+  <project cat='misc'>
+    <title>ZFS Support for UEFI Boot/Loader</title>
+
+    <contact>
+      <person>
+	<name>
+	  <given>Eric</given>
+	  <common>McCorkle</common>
+	</name>
+	<email>eric 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, as of the previous report.  The ZFS-enabled
+	<tt>loader.efi</tt> can be treated as a chainloader when
+	using ZFS-enabled GRUB.</p>
+
+      <p>During this quarter, several successful tests have been
+	reported on simple ZFS setups, using both <tt>boot1.efi</tt> with
+	<tt>loader.efi</tt> as well as GRUB and <tt>loader.efi</tt>.</p>
+
+      <p>Successful tests have been reported for UFS with the
+	patched <tt>boot1.efi</tt> and <tt>loader.efi</tt> as well.
+      </p>
+    </body>
+
+    <help>
+      <task>
+	<p>Test reports are needed for more complex ZFS setups,
+	  such as with log/l2arc vdevs, mirroring, striping, and raidz.</p>
+      </task>
+
+      <task>
+	<p>Pending successful reports, the patch needs to be
+	  reviewed and committed.</p>
+      </task>
+    </help>
+  </project>
+
 </report>
