Re: CTF: UEFI HTTP boot support

From: Warner Losh <imp_at_bsdimp.com>
Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2020 12:12:00 -0600
On Wed, Jun 17, 2020 at 12:06 PM Rebecca Cran <rebecca_at_bsdio.com> wrote:

>
> > On Jun 17, 2020, at 11:40 AM, Rodney W. Grimes <
> freebsd-rwg_at_gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> wrote:
> >
> > Does FreeBSD kernel have a driver that can talk to the UEFI ramdisk?
>
> I’m fairly sure UEFI generates it as a standard CD drive.
>

I missed the start of this thread, so maybe I'm missing a key detail.
However, I thought UEFI didn't have a RAM-disk, per se, but that we could
load memory areas and pass that into the kernel using freebsd-only methods.
But UEFI is a bit weird, so maybe it will generate a virtual cdrom...

Warner
Received on Wed Jun 17 2020 - 16:12:13 UTC

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