[haiku-development] Re: UEFI boot loader for Haiku

  • From: Alexander von Gluck <kallisti5@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2013 18:54:12 -0600

On 2013-01-14 07:14, François Revol wrote:
On 14/01/2013 11:10, Fredrik Holmqvist wrote:
2013/1/14 Axel Dörfler <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
The boot loader - kernel handshake is supposed to be stable at one point
(R1), and will remain backwards compatible, so having different
haiku_loaders around should not be problematic at all.

Furthermore, you'll have to use all those EFI APIs there, anyway.
Writing an EFI backend for the haiku_loader should be relatively simple, and straight-forward, as it already implements all the functionality you'll need. The hardest thing will probably be to build a proper EFI executable,
and integrate this with our build system.

Ah, that sounds like a good approach. So I will start working on a
prototype of this in my github.
I won't integrate it with the Haiku repo or the build system at this point.

It should be possible to write a BFS driver for EFI as well:

http://www.rodsbooks.com/refind/drivers.html

to allow it to locate the loader directly...

That's what I said in IRC but no-one listened to me :P

 -- Alex

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