tsoome: are you currently working on that 4k sector size issue with pcfs and uefi boot?

yes

good

that means I don't have to

:)

:)

the biggest issue i have with this is the silent failure to boot after installing. no error or warning or anything from the installer, or even from "zpool create -B"...

I need to verify my patch for installboot, but its a bit complicated because I'm not really sure about pcfs writes:D

and our mkfs does not support 4k sector size, so other tool is needed to create the fs...

and, it seems we may need to reserve more 4k sectors with zpool create -B... so there are some traps hiding...

why not update mkfs?

thats in process:) but the thing is, need to do with hand in hand of fsck, to be able to verify both created structure on disk and pcfs writes into it:D

so far I have been attempting to verify by using fbsd fsck, but tbh, I'm not quite sure how much it can be trusted either:D

anyhow, need to fix this memlist merge first....

I see that 1425,5801 is not available in illumos, it's a Chelsio Virtual Function (VF) device from SR-IOV. I was wondering, do we have a device that supports VF? I'd like to have a look at the code and try to implement it in t4nex/cxgbe

In this case the question of differences would be really Chelsio specific. I think the thing to do here is to understand how they handle VFs for this device on other systems.

There shouldn't be anything different in PCIe land here. But the issue will be that I presume you have to skip certain firmware related activities.

Depending on how Chelsio has designed things and what's passed through in the VF bars it'll vary dramatically.