NetBSD Problem Report #58953

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Date: Thu,  2 Jan 2025 08:36:50 -0800 (PST)
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Subject: Migrate x86 boot programs with generic efi boot
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>Number:         58953
>Category:       port-i386
>Synopsis:       Migrate x86 boot programs with generic efi boot
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    port-i386-maintainer
>State:          open
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Jan 02 16:40:00 +0000 2025
>Originator:     Paul Goyette
>Release:        NetBSD 10.99.12
>Organization:
+---------------------+--------------------------+----------------------+
| Paul Goyette (.sig) | PGP Key fingerprint:     | E-mail addresses:    |
| (Retired)           | 1B11 1849 721C 56C8 F63A | paul@whooppee.com    |
| Software Developer  | 6E2E 05FD 15CE 9F2D 5102 | pgoyette@netbsd.org  |
| & Network Engineer  |                          | pgoyette99@gmail.com |
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>Environment:


System: NetBSD speedy.whooppee.com 10.99.12 NetBSD 10.99.12 (SPEEDY 2024-12-14 04:11:35 UTC) #0: Sat Dec 14 11:32:20 UTC 2024 paul@speedy.whooppee.com:/build/netbsd-local/obj/amd64/sys/arch/amd64/compile/SPEEDY amd64
Architecture: x86_64
Machine: amd64
>Description:
From IRC conversation related to port-i386/58952:

i386/amd64 bootxx code should use the MI (EFI) stuff and their additional
features should be merged there (in ``libsa''?).  Every time a new feature
is added to the x86 bootloader it makes it harder to merge the two.  Other
ports such as arm, aarch64, and riscv would greatly benefit from a merge.

>How-To-Repeat:

>Fix:


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