On Sat, Feb 27, 2021, 8:01 PM Brandon Bergren <bdra...@freebsd.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 27, 2021, at 8:39 PM, Warner Losh wrote: > > > 32-bit Arm can boot via EFI. Just mips* and powerpc*. > > > > There was some rumblings of little endian powerpc64 efi, but I don't > > think it's ready... > > I've never heard of such things. PAPR/LoPAPR/LoPAR (pseries) is specified > as an OpenFirmware platform, and I don't see that changing in the future > given the way it's baked into the spec. And PowerNV is a > minimal-runtime-services platform where the runtime abstraction (OPAL) > calls don't include any sort of way to access disk devices. > > Do you mean alternative firmware for PowerNV? I've heard people talking on > and off about coreboot, but I don't see that becoming mainstream over the > petitboot skiroot payload. > > I don't see the pseries virtualization requirements changing away from > OpenFirmware in the future either, given the OpenFirmware requirement has > been a constant all the way back to CHRP. > There was a working group that was defining powerpc bindings that were being worked on. When I went back to find them again I couldn't, so maybe they came to naught... Warner > > > Yea, we have long since switched our preferred boot on arm to EFI... > > though we don't have installer images for 32bit arm, which is this > > runs... so it's needed for correctness, but not a practical > > difference... > > > > Warner > > -- > Brandon Bergren > bdra...@freebsd.org > _______________________________________________ dev-commits-src-main@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/dev-commits-src-main To unsubscribe, send any mail to "dev-commits-src-main-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
