On Tue, 26 Jan 2016 10:21:47 -0600 D. Jared Dominguez wrote: > On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 10:13:58AM -0600, Lee Fisher wrote: > >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > >Hash: SHA512 > > > >> I believe that, even if you were to implement this, there needs to > >> be clarity from the UEFI forum on what the expected, > >> spec-compliant behavior is when there are multiple ESP's, > >> especially since I doubt it is well tested. Without this > >> information, anything Debian might implement ends up as just a > >> hack, and bugs mostly would end up actually being differences in > >> implementation that no BIOS vendor would actually consider a bug. > > > >Perhaps starting with the UEFI Forum's new FOSS-centric mailing list, > >might be a good start. Other FOSS OSes would presumably have to deal > >with this, not just Debian. If you are not a UEFI Forum member, maybe > >you can find a proxy who can help you, if they're interested in > >multiple ESP support. AFAIK, Debian is not a member of UEFI Forum, so > >you'll have to try Canonical, Red Hat, or SuSE. > > > >http://www.uefi.org/FWOSForum > > > >Thanks, > >Lee > > (Added Francesco back since he said he's not subscribed to this list.) Thanks. > > Agreed, and that list is what I had in mind as a starting point for > Francesco. Membership in the UEFI forum is not necessary to join that > list and start discussing there. I am afraid I don't have time to start a discussion in such a large cross-operating-system forum. Any help from anyone willing to bring that to the UEFI forum will be much appreciated. P.S.: I am not sure I understand what exactly the issue with multiple ESPs may be, from the UEFI firmware point of view. When I plug in a removable mass storage device with an ESP in it, a new boot option appears automatically on my box. I don't see much difference from the case of a box with N internal drives, each one with its own ESP and corresponding efibootmgr boot option... -- http://www.inventati.org/frx/ There's not a second to spare! To the laboratory! ..................................................... Francesco Poli . GnuPG key fpr == CA01 1147 9CD2 EFDF FB82 3925 3E1C 27E1 1F69 BFFE
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