<HTML><BODY>Hi<br><br>that's a great achievement by TS.<br>I tested his code in all of July and the first week of August.<br>A pity UEFI support is not yet in, but given Illumos' contribution cycle it's never easy to get something contributed, so it's perhaps just a question of time.<br>The UEFI code exists however in TS personal github and I could test it in a lengthy manner over 5 weeks daily fulltime (Atom Z3735F BayTrail Tablet).<br><br>Similar to Grub2 (such as 1.99 with Oracle's public 2011 diffs) it now (or rather _then_, when all is in) supports UEFI32_x64 and UEFI64_x64.<br><br>A bit tricky at first and one needs to spend at the minimum 1 week (better 1 month) of research with it.<br>But after you know what is what and how it works, it is just phantastic.<br><br>If you ever need help with UEFI, I'm glad to join in.<br>But as said - so far (as it sounds from the announcement, I didn't check yet) the UEFI changes are not yet in the main Illumos gate.<br><br>Also it is interesting to see which changes the new VESA console gfx_private will bring to i915.<br>I mean, the VESA console changes won't change much from DRM's point of view, but at some point I must look again which other potentially interesting features got added to gfx_private.<br><br>I'll review the global diff now ...<br><br><br>--<br>best regards<br>%martin bochnig<br><br><br><blockquote style="border-left:1px solid #0857A6; margin:10px; padding:0 0 0 10px;">
Вторник, 27 сентября 2016, 19:44 UTC от Alexander Pyhalov <alp@rsu.ru>:<br>
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The work on porting FreeBSD loader to illumos-gate has been recently <br>
integrated. It is going to appear in /hipster repository soon.<br>
This concerns all OpenIndiana Hipster users. Briefly, when you update to <br>
the latest OpenIndiana Hipster AND do beadm activate,<br>
grub will be replaced with loader.<br>
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Loader fixes a lot of issues (most annoying is the limit on the count of <br>
boot environments) and brings in support for new features,<br>
like support for booting from raidz, but after installing loader to <br>
activate older BEs (which don't have loader userland binaries) you'll<br>
have to interact with loader (i.e. have console access). Newer BEs, <br>
which have loader userland bits, can be safely activated.<br>
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If you have console access, to load old (pre-loader) BE, you can do from <br>
loader prompt:<br>
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ok beadm activate bename<br>
ok load -t rootfs /platform/i86pc/amd64/boot_archive<br>
ok boot<br>
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where "ok" is a loader prompt.<br>
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To keep grub as your current loader, you can create file /etc/default/be<br>
with the following line:<br>
BE_HAS_GRUB=true<br>
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Note, that in future grub support will be completely removed from <br>
illumos-gate.<br>
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Detailed announcement about loader integration can be found here:<br>
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