Re: netbsd-9, boot, EFI and device tree

[Jason Thorpe <thorpej%me.com@localhost>]

> On Apr 27, 2021, at 7:51 AM, tlaronde%polynum.com@localhost wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Apr 27, 2021 at 07:29:49AM +0200, tlaronde%polynum.com@localhost wrote:
>> On Mon, Apr 26, 2021 at 02:36:58PM -0700, Jason Thorpe wrote:
>>> 
>>>> On Apr 26, 2021, at 6:05 AM, tlaronde%polynum.com@localhost wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> efibootplist
>>> 
>>> FYI -- this one is gone in -current.
>> 
>> Thanks for the information. I will upgrade my sources to current (I will
>> sketch an efiboot.8 man page and Mouse has kindly proposed to review it
>> at least to fix the English; so I will take the current state of the
>> implementation).
> 
> De facto, in current, the behavior is totally changed: nothing is 
> passed by the UEFI environment variables anymore but the UEFI OS
> loader takes parameters in the same way other instances of the
> second-stage loader behave.
> 
> See /usr/src/sys/stand/efiboot/version:
> 
> 2.2:    Remove support for storing settings in EFI env vars.
> 
> So it is useless to write a man page at least for now since it is a
> moving target...
> 
> And the ones presently working on it will be far more apt to add such
> a man page once this is settled.

In -current, there is boot.cfg support for the ARM EFI boot loader.  Looks like a few of the ARM-specific parameters need to be listed in boot.cfg(8), though.

-- thorpej