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

  • From: François Revol <revol@xxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2013 14:14:59 +0100

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...

François.

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