On Mon, Nov 20, 2023 at 6:21 PM Xin Li <delp...@delphij.net> wrote:
> Hi, > > It seems that the recent improvements of ACPI detection (e0f3dc82727f > and 0b01d45783c3) would leave the system in an unbootable state if the > UEFI files are not being updated at the same time of "make > installworld". At early boot the kernel would panic with: > > panic: running without device atpic requires a local APIC on UEFI systems > > To recover a system in this state, at loader prompt, use: > > unset hint.acpi.0.disabled > boot > > (I think core.lua should be modified to be compatible with an older UEFI > payload, possibly issuing a warning that gets logged; and this should be > mentioned in UPDATING) > I just pushed https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/commit/?id=f213da893ca8c7c76e1656b36d3a10f93f9a1760 which should fix the issue for x86, with an UPDATING entry for aarch64. This is at best a stop-gap kludge. The real solution would be for loader.efi to publish a list of interfaces it implements and then the lua code can cope with old/new better. Warner
