On 17.05.2012 17:28, Eric McCorkle wrote: >> As i see we already have sys/boot/efi/libefi/efipart.c that uses >> EFI BLOCK_IO_PROTOCOL to make "part" devsw. EFI BLOCK_IO_PROTOCOL >> provides access to each disk and partition. AFAIK it supports only >> GPT and MBR+EBR, so there might be some problems with ZFS support, >> because we can use ZFS atop of BSD partition. > > > I'd need to take a look, but if the efi loaders are not directly > calling the EFI_BLOCK_IO_PROTOCOL functions, then it should be easy to > implement a layer that understands BSDlabels. IA64 might have a solution. > > Then again, is a BSDlabel really necessary on a GPT disk?
It might be necessary for the ZFS case. ZFS can use several devices/partitions and they should be accessible while booting. -- WBR, Andrey V. Elsukov _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
