From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from nitrogen.ehzed.com ([192.81.130.127]) by ewsd; Sat May 23 15:20:34 EDT 2020 Received: by nitrogen.ehzed.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id B500ADD288; Sat, 23 May 2020 19:20:32 +0000 (UTC) Date: Sat, 23 May 2020 12:20:32 -0700 From: John Weaver To: 9front@9front.org Subject: Re: [9front] UEFI boot on ARM / RPi Message-ID: <20200523192032.GA1189@nitrogen.ehzed.com> References: <20200522171659.74092c56@riseup.net> <20200523004434.6ca19ba2@riseup.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.9.4 (2018-02-28) List-ID: <9front.9front.org> List-Help: X-Glyph: ➈ X-Bullshit: compliant wrapper XMPP over SQL blockchain grid controller On Sat, May 23, 2020 at 07:34:15AM +0000, hiro wrote: > >> /dev/reboot > > > > When I last tried that it didn't work. Not sure why. > > The system is slightly broken right now because all my mice stopped > > working for some reason (even though the setup is basically the same > > one i used a few months ago), so I'll try to reproduce it later. But I'm > > pretty sure that doing what the docs said didn't work, so I just > > assumed the bcm(64) kernel doesn't support it. > > I also want to try out some Linux and BSD distros on it, and I'm not > > sure if I can kexec between them and 9front. My conservative guess was > > that I cannot, or at the very least there will be limitations. > > > > well, if you fix whatever issues /dev/reboot still have for you it > will save you time in the long run. maintaining an efi operating > system alongside the bootloader firmware and all your other bsd, linux > shit is much more complexity than you will be able to handle. I think the error is that reboot(8) doesn't recognize the signature of the kernel for 9pi{,2,3,4}. The 's' kernels so work with reboot(8). -john