UEFI status? (was Re: GPT/UEFI booting)

[Masanobu SAITOH <msaitoh%execsw.org@localhost>]

 Hi, all.

 A few days ago, I successfully booted from UP board.

	http://www.up-board.org/up/comparison-up-versus-edisongalileo-joule/

UP board's UEFI doesn't support legacy boot. Currently,
our sysinst doesn't support creating UEFI bootable disk,
so I tried creating disk with reading the first mail of
this thread. I couldn't make bootable disk, too. But,
I've noticed the info from doing "gpt show -a sd0"
on a disk which contains images/NetBSD-8.xx.y-1-amd64-uefi-install.img.
A bootable image has a attribute "bootme":

> uefi# gpt show -a sd0
>       start       size  index  contents
>           0          1         PMBR
>           1          1         Pri GPT header
>           2         32         Pri GPT table
>          34      65536      1  GPT part - EFI System
>                                  Type: efi
>                                  TypeID: c12a7328-f81f-11d2-ba4b-00a0c93ec93b
>                                  GUID: 64a9158f-099d-442d-9ae4-ddbb6b604114
>                                  Size: 32768 K
>                                  Label: EFI System
>                                  Attributes: None
>       65570  122486717      2  GPT part - NetBSD FFSv1/FFSv2
>                                  Type: ffs
>                                  TypeID: 49f48d5a-b10e-11dc-b99b-0019d1879648
>                                  GUID: 63313eee-af70-4e00-90a1-e0443c02ce4d
>                                  Size: 59808 M
>                                  Label: amd64-current
>                                  Attributes: bootme <============ This!
>   122552287         32         Sec GPT table
>   122552319          1         Sec GPT header

so,

> This is what I’ve done so far:
> #
> # Create the GPT segments
> #
> gpt create -f ld0
> gpt add -s 65536 -t efi -l "EFI System" ld0
> gpt add -s 525168 -t ffs -l "NetBSD-root" ld0

"gpt set -a bootme -i N(parpahs 2) xx0" is required.

> gpt add -s 256000 -t swap -l "NetBSD-swap" ld0
> gpt add -s 1024000 -t ffs -l "NetBSD-var" ld0
> gpt add -s 16264934 -t ffs -l "NetBSD-usr" ld0
> gpt add -t ffs -l "NetBSD-home”
> #
> # Initialize the wedges
> #

 To inform this flag, I modified gpt.8 yesterday
(and thanks kre@ fixing typo!)

 After setup my environment, I've noticed that neither
acpidump and nor pkgsrc/dmidecode didn't work. The reason
is that those information are not near the beginning of
the physical address on UEFI environment. For acpidump,
the problem was fixed. Not yet for pkgsrc/dmidecode.

 I've not used grub2. If someone(TM) succeeded booting
with grub2, it would be good to summarize the howto.

 Making sysinst UEFI friendly is important. Could someone
do by 8.0-RELEASE?

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                SAITOH Masanobu (msaitoh%execsw.org@localhost
                                 msaitoh%netbsd.org@localhost)