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# 303975 11-Aug-2016 gjb

Copy stable/11@r303970 to releng/11.0 as part of the 11.0-RELEASE
cycle.

Prune svn:mergeinfo from the new branch, and rename it to RC1.

Update __FreeBSD_version.

Use the quarterly branch for the default FreeBSD.conf pkg(8) repo and
the dvd1.iso packages population.

Approved by: re (implicit)
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation

# 302408 08-Jul-2016 gjb

Copy head@r302406 to stable/11 as part of the 11.0-RELEASE cycle.
Prune svn:mergeinfo from the new branch, as nothing has been merged
here.

Additional commits post-branch will follow.

Approved by: re (implicit)
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation


# 294068 15-Jan-2016 smh

Add EFI ZFS boot support

This builds on the modular EFI loader support added r294060 adding a
module to provide ZFS boot support on EFI systems.

It should be noted that EFI uses a fixed size memory block for all
allocations performed by the loader so it may be necessary to tune this
size.

For example when building an image which uses mfs_root e.g. mfsbsd, adding
the following to /etc/make.conf would be needed to prevent EFI from running
out of memory when loading the mfs_root image.
EFI_STAGING_SIZE=128

Submitted by: Eric McCorkle
MFC after: 2 weeks
X-MFC-With: r293268
Sponsored by: Multiplay


# 281020 03-Apr-2015 andrew

Only enable comconsole and nullconsole on x86.


# 280950 01-Apr-2015 andrew

Move the efi loaders to be under sys/boot/efi. This will help us add
support for booting arm and arm64 from UEFI.

Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D2164
Reviewed by: emaste, imp (previous version)
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation


# 279950 13-Mar-2015 jhb

Enable bzipfs support in the EFI loader.
- Add bzipfs to the list of supported filesystems in the EFI loader.
- Increase the heap size allocated for the EFI loader from 2MB to 3MB.

Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D2053
Reviewed by: benno, emaste, imp
MFC after: 2 weeks
Sponsored by: Cisco Systems, Inc.


# 271475 12-Sep-2014 ambrisko

Add support for serial and null console to UEFI boot loader.


# 264095 04-Apr-2014 emaste

Support UEFI booting on amd64 via loader.efi

This is largely the work from the projects/uefi branch, with some
additional refinements. This is derived from (and replaces) the
original i386 efi implementation; i386 support will be restored later.

Specific revisions of note from projects/uefi:

r247380:

Adjust our load device when we boot from CD under UEFI.

The process for booting from a CD under UEFI involves adding a FAT
filesystem containing your loader code as an El Torito boot image.
When UEFI detects this, it provides a block IO instance that points at
the FAT filesystem as a child of the device that represents the CD
itself. The problem being that the CD device is flagged as a "raw
device" while the boot image is flagged as a "logical partition". The
existing EFI partition code only looks for logical partitions and so
the CD filesystem was rendered invisible.

To fix this, check the type of each block IO device. If it's found to
be a CD, and thus an El Torito boot image, look up its parent device
and add that instead so that the loader will then load the kernel from
the CD filesystem. This is done by using the handle for the boot
filesystem as an alias.

Something similar to this will be required for booting from other
media as well as the loader will live in the EFI system partition, not
on the partition containing the kernel.

r246231:

Add necessary code to hand off from loader to an amd64 kernel.

r246335:

Grab the EFI memory map and store it as module metadata on the kernel.

This is the same approach used to provide the BIOS SMAP to the kernel.

r246336:

Pass the ACPI table metadata via hints so the kernel ACPI code can
find them.

r246608:

Rework copy routines to ensure we always use memory allocated via EFI.

The previous code assumed it could copy wherever it liked. This is not
the case. The approach taken by this code is pretty ham-fisted in that
it simply allocates a large (32MB) buffer area and stages into that,
then copies the whole area into place when it's time to execute. A more
elegant solution could be used but this works for now.

r247214:

Fix a number of problems preventing proper handover to the kernel.

There were two issues at play here. Firstly, there was nothing
preventing UEFI from placing the loader code above 1GB in RAM. This
meant that when we switched in the page tables the kernel expects to
be running on, we are suddenly unmapped and things no longer work. We
solve this by making our trampoline code not dependent on being at any
given position and simply copying it to a "safe" location before
calling it.

Secondly, UEFI could allocate our stack wherever it wants. As it
happened on my PC, that was right where I was copying the kernel to.
This did not cause happiness. The solution to this was to also switch
to a temporary stack in a safe location before performing the final
copy of the loaded kernel.

r246231:

Add necessary code to hand off from loader to an amd64 kernel.

r246335:

Grab the EFI memory map and store it as module metadata on the kernel.

This is the same approach used to provide the BIOS SMAP to the kernel.

r246336:

Pass the ACPI table metadata via hints so the kernel ACPI code can
find them.

r246608:

Rework copy routines to ensure we always use memory allocated via EFI.

The previous code assumed it could copy wherever it liked. This is not
the case. The approach taken by this code is pretty ham-fisted in that
it simply allocates a large (32MB) buffer area and stages into that,
then copies the whole area into place when it's time to execute. A more
elegant solution could be used but this works for now.

r247214:

Fix a number of problems preventing proper handover to the kernel.

There were two issues at play here. Firstly, there was nothing
preventing UEFI from placing the loader code above 1GB in RAM. This
meant that when we switched in the page tables the kernel expects to
be running on, we are suddenly unmapped and things no longer work. We
solve this by making our trampoline code not dependent on being at any
given position and simply copying it to a "safe" location before
calling it.

Secondly, UEFI could allocate our stack wherever it wants. As it
happened on my PC, that was right where I was copying the kernel to.
This did not cause happiness. The solution to this was to also switch
to a temporary stack in a safe location before performing the final
copy of the loaded kernel.

r247216:

Use the UEFI Graphics Output Protocol to get the parameters of the
framebuffer.

Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation


# 206376 07-Apr-2010 rpaulo

EFI boot loader for FreeBSD/i386.

Doesn't boot a kernel yet, but it can read an ELF file from the EFI FAT
partition.