[haiku-development] Re: UEFI boot loader for Haiku
- From: Fredrik Holmqvist <fredrik.holmqvist@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2013 11:10:45 +0100
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.
And any help is welcome...
/Fredrik Holmqvist, TQH
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