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Aug 2 2017

eric_metricspace.net updated the diff for D10447: Unify boot1 with loader.

Rebased to HEAD

Aug 2 2017, 7:15 PM
eric_metricspace.net added a comment to D10447: Unify boot1 with loader.
In D10447#245058, @imp wrote:

This review is a little out of date and is much more ambitious than what I've just done in https://reviews.freebsd.org/D11820 . which also sets down this path, but not as completely. I fear that will make this a little harder, but maybe not by too much.

Aug 2 2017, 7:14 PM

Jul 13 2017

eric_metricspace.net added a comment to D9680: Increase EFI MSDOSFS image size to 512Kib.
In D9680#239393, @imp wrote:

Why not 50MB instead of 512kb? That's stupidly small and precludes any and all future use of UEFI programs as well as boot block bloat. bz2 compressed, the size difference is trivial.

Jul 13 2017, 12:26 PM

Jul 12 2017

eric_metricspace.net added a comment to D10512: GELI support for EFI loader.

Rebased to head, addressed reviewer comments

Jul 12 2017, 10:14 AM
eric_metricspace.net updated the diff for D10512: GELI support for EFI loader.
Jul 12 2017, 10:13 AM
eric_metricspace.net updated the diff for D10447: Unify boot1 with loader.

Rebased to master

Jul 12 2017, 10:00 AM

Jul 1 2017

eric_metricspace.net added inline comments to D10447: Unify boot1 with loader.
Jul 1 2017, 10:20 PM
eric_metricspace.net updated the diff for D10447: Unify boot1 with loader.

Remove extra bcache init

Jul 1 2017, 10:20 PM
eric_metricspace.net added inline comments to D10447: Unify boot1 with loader.
Jul 1 2017, 10:15 PM
eric_metricspace.net added a comment to D10447: Unify boot1 with loader.

Also note that the increase dosfs size needs to go in first, or else it will break the build.

Jul 1 2017, 9:11 PM
eric_metricspace.net added inline comments to D10447: Unify boot1 with loader.
Jul 1 2017, 9:09 PM
eric_metricspace.net updated the diff for D10447: Unify boot1 with loader.

Address style and whitespace issues

Jul 1 2017, 9:09 PM
eric_metricspace.net accepted D9680: Increase EFI MSDOSFS image size to 512Kib.

As long as the max size is increased, it should work with my downstream changes.

Jul 1 2017, 8:40 PM
eric_metricspace.net added inline comments to D10559: Bug 219000 - Integer underflow in efipart_realstrategy when I/O starts after end of disk.
Jul 1 2017, 6:51 PM
eric_metricspace.net updated the diff for D10559: Bug 219000 - Integer underflow in efipart_realstrategy when I/O starts after end of disk.

Addressed style comments

Jul 1 2017, 6:51 PM
eric_metricspace.net added a comment to D10447: Unify boot1 with loader.

If you can address the feedback that is here, and remove the whitespace changes, I think this is ready to land.

Jul 1 2017, 6:32 PM
eric_metricspace.net added a comment to D8575: Verified execution (veriexec) fingerprint loader.

If I understand this correctly, this is a system based on symmetric-key message authentication codes which allows specific files to be assigned specific a specific MAC, which is then checked when those files are loaded.

Jul 1 2017, 5:44 PM

Jun 29 2017

eric_metricspace.net updated the diff for D10512: GELI support for EFI loader.

Rebase to HEAD

Jun 29 2017, 12:42 AM
eric_metricspace.net updated the diff for D10447: Unify boot1 with loader.

Rebase to HEAD

Jun 29 2017, 12:39 AM
eric_metricspace.net updated the diff for D9680: Increase EFI MSDOSFS image size to 512Kib.

Rebase to HEAD

Jun 29 2017, 12:36 AM
eric_metricspace.net updated the diff for D10559: Bug 219000 - Integer underflow in efipart_realstrategy when I/O starts after end of disk.

Rebased to HEAD

Jun 29 2017, 12:34 AM

May 12 2017

eric_metricspace.net updated the diff for D10512: GELI support for EFI loader.

Resolved issues with booting, tested with successful boot on QEMU. This should work now, but still needs to be tested on real hardware.

May 12 2017, 12:00 AM

May 1 2017

eric_metricspace.net added inline comments to D10559: Bug 219000 - Integer underflow in efipart_realstrategy when I/O starts after end of disk.
May 1 2017, 3:04 PM
eric_metricspace.net created D10559: Bug 219000 - Integer underflow in efipart_realstrategy when I/O starts after end of disk.
May 1 2017, 2:44 PM
eric_metricspace.net updated the diff for D10447: Unify boot1 with loader.

Use currdev environment variable, and libstand's basic file API.

May 1 2017, 1:13 AM

Apr 26 2017

eric_metricspace.net created D10512: GELI support for EFI loader.
Apr 26 2017, 5:26 PM

Apr 24 2017

eric_metricspace.net updated the diff for D10486: Bug 218860 - libelf doesn't reload section headers after update with ELF_C_WRITE.
Apr 24 2017, 11:25 PM
eric_metricspace.net updated the diff for D10487: Bug 218861 - libelf elf_update fails when adding sections.
Apr 24 2017, 11:23 PM
eric_metricspace.net updated the diff for D10487: Bug 218861 - libelf elf_update fails when adding sections.
Apr 24 2017, 11:23 PM
eric_metricspace.net created D10487: Bug 218861 - libelf elf_update fails when adding sections.
Apr 24 2017, 11:21 PM
eric_metricspace.net created D10486: Bug 218860 - libelf doesn't reload section headers after update with ELF_C_WRITE.
Apr 24 2017, 11:15 PM
eric_metricspace.net added a comment to D10447: Unify boot1 with loader.

Actually, there is a bug hiding out somewhere in this that causes ZFS volumes not to be detected.

Apr 24 2017, 5:51 PM

Apr 22 2017

eric_metricspace.net added inline comments to D10410: EFI_SIMPLE_FILE_SYSTEM driver.
Apr 22 2017, 1:15 AM

Apr 21 2017

eric_metricspace.net abandoned D7589: EFI boot1 and loader Refactoring.
Apr 21 2017, 2:58 PM
eric_metricspace.net created D10447: Unify boot1 with loader.
Apr 21 2017, 2:57 PM

Apr 17 2017

eric_metricspace.net abandoned D9679: Add API functions and interfaces for EFI refactoring.
Apr 17 2017, 12:34 AM
eric_metricspace.net abandoned D9909: Add getdesc interface to struct devsw.
Apr 17 2017, 12:33 AM
eric_metricspace.net abandoned D9687: Add string16 API.
Apr 17 2017, 12:33 AM
eric_metricspace.net created D10410: EFI_SIMPLE_FILE_SYSTEM driver.
Apr 17 2017, 12:31 AM

Apr 1 2017

eric_metricspace.net updated the diff for D9679: Add API functions and interfaces for EFI refactoring.

Remove unnecessary changes to handles.c

Apr 1 2017, 12:17 PM
eric_metricspace.net added a comment to D9679: Add API functions and interfaces for EFI refactoring.

Actually, efi_register_handle and efi_handle_remove_dev can be deleted from this patch. They were an artifact of when I tried to add hot-plugging support to the EFI loader (it doesn't work because bcache doesn't support it)

Apr 1 2017, 11:38 AM
eric_metricspace.net updated the diff for D9679: Add API functions and interfaces for EFI refactoring.

Removed getdesc function for ZFS (this was moved into the getdesc patch)

Apr 1 2017, 11:16 AM
eric_metricspace.net updated the diff for D9687: Add string16 API.
Apr 1 2017, 3:51 AM

Mar 31 2017

eric_metricspace.net updated the diff for D9575: Boot-time Key Intake Metadata.

Integrate allanjude's pull request

Mar 31 2017, 11:37 AM
eric_metricspace.net updated the diff for D9575: Boot-time Key Intake Metadata.

Rebased after alanjude's patch adding explicit_bzero to boot loaders

Mar 31 2017, 1:44 AM

Mar 6 2017

eric_metricspace.net updated the diff for D9575: Boot-time Key Intake Metadata.

Add changes by Allan Jude, adding support to boot2

Mar 6 2017, 6:23 PM
eric_metricspace.net added inline comments to D9909: Add getdesc interface to struct devsw.
Mar 6 2017, 6:18 PM
eric_metricspace.net retitled D9909: Add getdesc interface to struct devsw from to Add getdesc interface to struct devsw.
Mar 6 2017, 6:16 PM

Mar 1 2017

eric_metricspace.net added a comment to D9798: Add explicit_bzero() to libstand.

Good change for my pending keybuf work

Mar 1 2017, 3:03 PM

Feb 20 2017

eric_metricspace.net updated the diff for D9575: Boot-time Key Intake Metadata.
Feb 20 2017, 11:03 PM
eric_metricspace.net added a comment to D9687: Add string16 API.

I like the interface in lib/libefi/libefi.c

Feb 20 2017, 7:51 PM
eric_metricspace.net added a comment to D9687: Add string16 API.
In D9687#200246, @imp wrote:

All the string functions suffer from the same problem we have with the original string functions you replaced: they don't properly implement character conversions. Please see the efivar stuff I did in -current to see what you need to do there. And you should put the functions I wrote there into libstand. While these functions work well enough for ASCIIish things, they fail for anything more complex. If we're going to rework things, let's do it correctly and reuse what was done correctly for efivar (who, to be fair, stole and reworked the code from Marcel's earlier efi on ia64 work).

Feb 20 2017, 4:59 PM
eric_metricspace.net retitled D9687: Add string16 API from to Add string16 API.
Feb 20 2017, 2:06 PM
eric_metricspace.net updated the diff for D9679: Add API functions and interfaces for EFI refactoring.

Add some more utility functions

Feb 20 2017, 2:00 PM
eric_metricspace.net retitled D9680: Increase EFI MSDOSFS image size to 512Kib from to Increase EFI MSDOSFS image size to 512Kib.
Feb 20 2017, 12:12 AM
eric_metricspace.net added reviewers for D9679: Add API functions and interfaces for EFI refactoring: manu, emaste, imp.
Feb 20 2017, 12:05 AM
eric_metricspace.net added reviewers for D9679: Add API functions and interfaces for EFI refactoring: allanjude, tsoome, cpm.
Feb 20 2017, 12:04 AM
eric_metricspace.net retitled D9679: Add API functions and interfaces for EFI refactoring from to Add API functions and interfaces for EFI refactoring.
Feb 20 2017, 12:04 AM

Feb 19 2017

eric_metricspace.net added inline comments to D9575: Boot-time Key Intake Metadata.
Feb 19 2017, 11:51 PM
eric_metricspace.net added inline comments to D9575: Boot-time Key Intake Metadata.
Feb 19 2017, 9:28 PM
eric_metricspace.net updated the diff for D9575: Boot-time Key Intake Metadata.
Feb 19 2017, 9:28 PM
eric_metricspace.net added a comment to D7589: EFI boot1 and loader Refactoring.

Update on this patch: I'm going to attempt to break it up into some smaller changesets to make it more manageable.

Feb 19 2017, 1:03 PM
eric_metricspace.net added inline comments to D9575: Boot-time Key Intake Metadata.
Feb 19 2017, 12:55 PM

Feb 18 2017

eric_metricspace.net added a comment to D9575: Boot-time Key Intake Metadata.
In D9575#199104, @cem wrote:

This diff lacks context. Please use arc or diff with -U999999.

Feb 18 2017, 5:08 PM
eric_metricspace.net added inline comments to D9575: Boot-time Key Intake Metadata.
Feb 18 2017, 4:57 PM
eric_metricspace.net updated the diff for D9575: Boot-time Key Intake Metadata.
Feb 18 2017, 4:54 PM

Feb 16 2017

eric_metricspace.net added a comment to D9575: Boot-time Key Intake Metadata.
In D9575#199104, @cem wrote:
Feb 16 2017, 8:21 PM

Feb 15 2017

eric_metricspace.net updated the diff for D9575: Boot-time Key Intake Metadata.
Feb 15 2017, 4:12 PM

Feb 14 2017

eric_metricspace.net updated the diff for D9575: Boot-time Key Intake Metadata.

Moved MODINFOMD_KEYBUF definition to sys/linker.h

Feb 14 2017, 6:11 PM
eric_metricspace.net added inline comments to D9575: Boot-time Key Intake Metadata.
Feb 14 2017, 6:00 PM
eric_metricspace.net updated the diff for D9575: Boot-time Key Intake Metadata.

Added hook to clear GELI keys out of the intake buffer at mountroot.

Feb 14 2017, 5:59 PM
eric_metricspace.net added a comment to D9575: Boot-time Key Intake Metadata.

An observation: as presently implemented, this would bypass the password check for any GELI volume that was detached and later attached again. This is probably not desirable, as it could break security models.

One way to deal with this is to disable the keys after they are used to decrypt a volume. However, it warrants discussion.

I think we should explicit_bzero the keys/password as soon as we are done with them. GELI should already be doing this everything before the patch.

Feb 14 2017, 5:04 PM
eric_metricspace.net added a comment to D9575: Boot-time Key Intake Metadata.

An observation: as presently implemented, this would bypass the password check for any GELI volume that was detached and later attached again. This is probably not desirable, as it could break security models.

Feb 14 2017, 3:48 PM
eric_metricspace.net added inline comments to D9575: Boot-time Key Intake Metadata.
Feb 14 2017, 3:03 PM
eric_metricspace.net updated the diff for D9575: Boot-time Key Intake Metadata.
Feb 14 2017, 3:03 PM
eric_metricspace.net added inline comments to D9575: Boot-time Key Intake Metadata.
Feb 14 2017, 2:42 PM
eric_metricspace.net updated the diff for D9575: Boot-time Key Intake Metadata.

Addressed style issues.

Feb 14 2017, 2:40 PM

Feb 13 2017

eric_metricspace.net retitled D9575: Boot-time Key Intake Metadata from to Boot-time Key Intake Metadata.
Feb 13 2017, 8:43 PM

Jan 15 2017

eric_metricspace.net added a comment to D7589: EFI boot1 and loader Refactoring.

btw, there is also D8581 - it does work on another dimension however, by reusing disk and part API, and providing already familiar output for user.

Jan 15 2017, 1:15 PM

Jan 14 2017

eric_metricspace.net added a comment to D7589: EFI boot1 and loader Refactoring.

With partition - filesystem mapping we can get the device handle without much issue - the handle stack has handles from FS down to partition and disk handle and the api to access the next handle from stack is there.

With zfs the situation is much more complicated as it is dual disk and file system and we need interface to access BE list and to switch the "current" filesystem on top of the "disk", and UEFI api itself does not help us there. It is possible to create specific protocol on top of zfs pool to implement an mechanism to get information about BE's and to switch, but it means that instead of reducing complexity, we are adding more.... note that the dataset list specifying BE's can be quite long, on my dev host I currently do have 73 entries.

Also, as I already wrote, for human operating the machine, it is really important to know exactly what I'm going to boot from.

Jan 14 2017, 3:31 PM

Jan 13 2017

eric_metricspace.net added a comment to D7589: EFI boot1 and loader Refactoring.

tsoome, could you try out the new changes on your complex disk setup and let me know what the output looks like?

Jan 13 2017, 5:46 PM

Jan 7 2017

eric_metricspace.net updated the diff for D7589: EFI boot1 and loader Refactoring.

Fixed issue with directory listing file types.

Jan 7 2017, 11:56 PM
eric_metricspace.net added a comment to D7589: EFI boot1 and loader Refactoring.

It seems that I forgot about the file type issue with ls. I'll address that next, but please test the current patch to make sure it addresses the naming issue adequately.

Jan 7 2017, 9:50 PM
eric_metricspace.net updated the diff for D7589: EFI boot1 and loader Refactoring.

Added functionality to print out information about the filesystems with lsdev.

Jan 7 2017, 9:49 PM

Dec 6 2016

eric_metricspace.net added a comment to D7589: EFI boot1 and loader Refactoring.

ok, got it built, and initial test. And there is this problem...

OK lsdev

EFI0:    EFI(SIMPLE_FILE_SYSTEM)
EFI1:    EFI(SIMPLE_FILE_SYSTEM)
EFI2:    EFI(SIMPLE_FILE_SYSTEM)
EFI3:    EFI(SIMPLE_FILE_SYSTEM)
EFI4:    EFI(SIMPLE_FILE_SYSTEM)
EFI5:    EFI(SIMPLE_FILE_SYSTEM)
EFI6:    EFI(SIMPLE_FILE_SYSTEM)
EFI7:    EFI(SIMPLE_FILE_SYSTEM)

net devices:

net0:

OK

Dec 6 2016, 4:26 AM

Dec 5 2016

eric_metricspace.net added a comment to D7589: EFI boot1 and loader Refactoring.

Yep, we can skip dosfs there, and for very simple reason - if the firmware is not able to read system partition, there is no boot anyhow.

Dec 5 2016, 3:40 PM
eric_metricspace.net added a comment to D7589: EFI boot1 and loader Refactoring.

OK, based on others' reproduction of tsoome's issue on -hackers, I have a credible diagnostic theory.

Dec 5 2016, 2:39 PM
eric_metricspace.net added a comment to D7589: EFI boot1 and loader Refactoring.

tsoome, can I get you to build and test with the extra_logging branch on my github repo: https://github.com/emc2/freebsd

Dec 5 2016, 1:33 PM

Dec 2 2016

eric_metricspace.net added a comment to D7589: EFI boot1 and loader Refactoring.

I've posted a CFT to -hackers, -current, and -amd64.

Dec 2 2016, 5:41 PM

Dec 1 2016

eric_metricspace.net added a comment to D7589: EFI boot1 and loader Refactoring.

I am getting rejects on patch, could you rebase on current head?:)

tsoome@freebsd-2:/usr/eric % find . -name \*.rej
./lib/libstand/stand.h.rej
./sys/boot/efi/boot1/zfs_module.c.rej
./sys/boot/efi/boot1/ufs_module.c.rej
./sys/boot/efi/boot1/boot_module.h.rej
tsoome@freebsd-2:/usr/eric %

Strange. I had rebased just before I sent this up. I am rebasing from the github master, if that changes things at all. The last commit in the history is an hour ago.

My github repo for this is here: https://github.com/emc2/freebsd/tree/efize_new

Be aware: I'm using rebase -i to squash everything down to one commit at this point, so there's a lot of forced pushes going into efize_new

that may explain, as my fbsd source instances are all against svn ... so could it be the git has been missing some updates?

There's probably some lag going on somewhere. I see Ed Maste did push a change to the EFI loaders.

It might make more sense to build off of my repo in order to diagnose the issue your setup found.

Note, i may have been hit also by my own bug... see D8644

Dec 1 2016, 6:59 PM
eric_metricspace.net added a comment to D7589: EFI boot1 and loader Refactoring.

I am getting rejects on patch, could you rebase on current head?:)

tsoome@freebsd-2:/usr/eric % find . -name \*.rej
./lib/libstand/stand.h.rej
./sys/boot/efi/boot1/zfs_module.c.rej
./sys/boot/efi/boot1/ufs_module.c.rej
./sys/boot/efi/boot1/boot_module.h.rej
tsoome@freebsd-2:/usr/eric %

Strange. I had rebased just before I sent this up. I am rebasing from the github master, if that changes things at all. The last commit in the history is an hour ago.

My github repo for this is here: https://github.com/emc2/freebsd/tree/efize_new

Be aware: I'm using rebase -i to squash everything down to one commit at this point, so there's a lot of forced pushes going into efize_new

that may explain, as my fbsd source instances are all against svn ... so could it be the git has been missing some updates?

Dec 1 2016, 5:07 PM
eric_metricspace.net added a comment to D7589: EFI boot1 and loader Refactoring.

I did build from current state, the patch did apply clean, build faile due to -lstand issue noted before, thats simple to fix.

Unfortunately the boot is not going well, last message is:

Initializing modules: FS Backend-

the '-' is spinner it seems. The VM has 4 disks, illumos mirror zfs on first 2, third has fbsd, 4th (for this test) has EFI system partition, and zfs and ufs partitions, zfs partition has bootfs with /boot directory.

I did build from current state, the patch did apply clean, build faile due to -lstand issue noted before, thats simple to fix.

Unfortunately the boot is not going well, last message is:

Initializing modules: FS Backend-

the '-' is spinner it seems. The VM has 4 disks, illumos mirror zfs on first 2, third has fbsd, 4th (for this test) has EFI system partition, and zfs and ufs partitions, zfs partition has bootfs with /boot directory.

Failing in FS Backend would indicate that something's going wrong with the filesystem attach phase. The FS Backend initialization scans all device handles and attaches the right filesystem drivers.

If have been testing on my own laptops with 2 disks, one with an EFI system partition and a ZFS zolume, one with a ZFS cache and log.

Therefore, the most likely culprit is UFS, though multiple ZFS volumes or the illumos mirror could be a problem.

What VM are you using? The easiest way to hunt this down would be to replicate your setup locally. The second easiest would be to get you a patch with extra logging.

vmware fusion. The illumos zfs mirror by itself should not be problem as loader zfs reader can read it both ways without problems (illumos loader can access fbsd pools and vice versa), also multiple pools should not be an issue as such - and definitely is scenario for tests. UFS may be issue, altho in this test setup, its just empty, I had that idea to create /boot on it as next step:) There is also another potential pain point - the memory allocations - as boot1 is now linked with libstand, could it be the malloc/free used all around are interfering somehow...

Replaced uses of AllocatePool with malloc. Tested with a UFS partition, no problem.

tsoome, could you see if this affects anything? If not, then email me directly to coordinate diagnosis of the bug your setup found.

I am getting rejects on patch, could you rebase on current head?:)

tsoome@freebsd-2:/usr/eric % find . -name \*.rej
./lib/libstand/stand.h.rej
./sys/boot/efi/boot1/zfs_module.c.rej
./sys/boot/efi/boot1/ufs_module.c.rej
./sys/boot/efi/boot1/boot_module.h.rej
tsoome@freebsd-2:/usr/eric %

Dec 1 2016, 4:47 PM
eric_metricspace.net updated the diff for D7589: EFI boot1 and loader Refactoring.

Replaced uses of AllocatePool with malloc. Tested with a UFS partition, no problem.

Dec 1 2016, 3:15 PM

Nov 22 2016

eric_metricspace.net added a comment to D7589: EFI boot1 and loader Refactoring.

I did build from current state, the patch did apply clean, build faile due to -lstand issue noted before, thats simple to fix.

Unfortunately the boot is not going well, last message is:

Initializing modules: FS Backend-

the '-' is spinner it seems. The VM has 4 disks, illumos mirror zfs on first 2, third has fbsd, 4th (for this test) has EFI system partition, and zfs and ufs partitions, zfs partition has bootfs with /boot directory.

I did build from current state, the patch did apply clean, build faile due to -lstand issue noted before, thats simple to fix.

Unfortunately the boot is not going well, last message is:

Initializing modules: FS Backend-

the '-' is spinner it seems. The VM has 4 disks, illumos mirror zfs on first 2, third has fbsd, 4th (for this test) has EFI system partition, and zfs and ufs partitions, zfs partition has bootfs with /boot directory.

Failing in FS Backend would indicate that something's going wrong with the filesystem attach phase. The FS Backend initialization scans all device handles and attaches the right filesystem drivers.

If have been testing on my own laptops with 2 disks, one with an EFI system partition and a ZFS zolume, one with a ZFS cache and log.

Therefore, the most likely culprit is UFS, though multiple ZFS volumes or the illumos mirror could be a problem.

What VM are you using? The easiest way to hunt this down would be to replicate your setup locally. The second easiest would be to get you a patch with extra logging.

vmware fusion. The illumos zfs mirror by itself should not be problem as loader zfs reader can read it both ways without problems (illumos loader can access fbsd pools and vice versa), also multiple pools should not be an issue as such - and definitely is scenario for tests. UFS may be issue, altho in this test setup, its just empty, I had that idea to create /boot on it as next step:) There is also another potential pain point - the memory allocations - as boot1 is now linked with libstand, could it be the malloc/free used all around are interfering somehow...

Nov 22 2016, 2:54 PM

Nov 21 2016

eric_metricspace.net added a comment to D7589: EFI boot1 and loader Refactoring.

I did build from current state, the patch did apply clean, build faile due to -lstand issue noted before, thats simple to fix.

Unfortunately the boot is not going well, last message is:

Initializing modules: FS Backend-

the '-' is spinner it seems. The VM has 4 disks, illumos mirror zfs on first 2, third has fbsd, 4th (for this test) has EFI system partition, and zfs and ufs partitions, zfs partition has bootfs with /boot directory.

Nov 21 2016, 2:51 PM
eric_metricspace.net updated the diff for D7589: EFI boot1 and loader Refactoring.

IFC, also properly restored preferred functionality

Nov 21 2016, 1:42 AM

Oct 12 2016

eric_metricspace.net added a comment to D7589: EFI boot1 and loader Refactoring.

The preferred partition functionality is restored. The boot1 program now obtains the device handle from the loaded image handle, and checks for the presence of an EFI_SIMPLE_FILE_SYSTEM interface after attaching all drivers before scanning all partitions. This will have the effect of preferring the boot device on which the boot1 program resides.

Oct 12 2016, 11:27 AM
eric_metricspace.net updated the diff for D7589: EFI boot1 and loader Refactoring.
Oct 12 2016, 11:24 AM

Sep 17 2016

eric_metricspace.net added a comment to D7589: EFI boot1 and loader Refactoring.

To proceed, I need guidance on what exactly should be done to restore the preferred functionality.

Sep 17 2016, 10:16 PM
eric_metricspace.net added a comment to D7589: EFI boot1 and loader Refactoring.
In D7589#162680, @manu wrote:
Sep 17 2016, 10:14 PM