Hi,
It doesn’t seem to work. Building with LOADER_FIREWIRE_SUPPORT doesn’t actually get libfirewire.a built but adding the subdir to the list fixes that.
The resulting loader booted from a USB stick goes BTX Halted straight away.
> On 12 Nov 2022, at 20:49, Warner Losh <[email protected]> wrote:
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> On Sat, Nov 12, 2022, 1:25 PM Bob Bishop <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
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> Well, the kernel support ‘just works’ so installing on to a firewire disk is straightforward; just load up firewire.ko and sbp.ko, and the disk comes up through CAM.
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> However, I couldn’t get the loader to see the disk; I don’t think this build of the loader includes the firewire bits. Not helped on my hardware because the BIOS doesn’t have firewire disk boot support.
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> Firmware isn't built by default. You need a special build for that... what is loading /boot/loader? Not sure you could boot the system with it if the bios doesn't support it (except by having a tiny disk that the BIOS understands and using that to boot off the fireworks root).
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> Warner
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> Warner
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> > On 10 Nov 2022, at 21:53, Warner Losh <[email protected]> wrote:
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> > I've created a diff: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D37334
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> > Warner
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> > On Thu, Nov 10, 2022 at 3:07 AM Bob Bishop <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hi,
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> > > On 9 Nov 2022, at 23:55, Warner Losh <[email protected]> wrote:
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> > >
> > > On Wed, Nov 9, 2022 at 3:42 PM Mark Millard <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > Warner Losh <imp_at_bsdimp.com> wrote on
> > > Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2022 20:01:41 UTC :
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> > > > I'd like to drop firewire support from the boot loader. It's not been used
> > > > in quite some time, as far as I can tell. Nor have I (or anybody else)
> > > > tested it in forever.
> > > >
> > > > Is anybody still using it? Does anybody know if it works? Any objections to
> > > > removing it from FreeBSD 14?
> >
> > I think I still have hardware that will do this. I can check it out if anyone cares...
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> > > I would suggest that old PowerMac's might be the most
> > > likely usage context.
> > >
> > > Right now, though, this is an i386 only feature...
> > >
> > > Warner
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