Information related to EDD3.0 and ELILO
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Last updated: 02/02/14

As of elilo-3.0, the filesystem/device naming scheme takes advantage 
of the EDD3.0 support present in the underlying EFI/BIOS firmware layers.

The EDD3.0 support is supposedly turned on by default in all version of the
EFI firmware on IA-64 (and possibly IA-32). 

Support can be enabled or disabled dynamically using an EFI environment 
variable called "EDD30". The GUID of the variable is as follows:

#define EDD30_GUID \
{0x964e5b21, 0x6459, 0x11d2, { 0x8e, 0x39, 0x00, 0xa0, 0xc9, 0x69, 0x72, 0x3b}}

This is a boolean variable. When true, support is enabled. 
You can check if support is enabled by typing:

	Shell> edd30
	Usage edd30 [On | Off]
  	Used to support OS Loader debug
	EDD30 DevicePath Mode is On

at this EFI shell prompt. You can enable support by forcing the variable
to TRUE. This can be accomplished by typing:

	Shell> edd30 on
	EDD30 DevicePath Mode is On

Alternatively an EFI application can use RT->SetVariable() to set the
value of the EDD30 variable.

If the variable was set to false, then to take advantage of EDD3.0 
support after switching the variablle to TRUE, the system MUST be 
rebooted as EDD affects the core of EFI naming scheme.

Elilo will check if the variable is defined and valid. If it is set
to true, then the device name schemes that rely on it will work properly.
That's the case for the 'simple' scheme. If the variable is not set to true
or does not exist, elilo will use a generic builtin scheme with names
such as dev001, dev002 and so on. The "EDD30" variable is like a system 
variable therefore it is expected not to be overloaded by users for others 
purposes.  Elilo is fully functional even when EDD30 is off.

By default, if EDD30 is off, elilo will try and set the variable to TRUE.
However, some controllers do not support EDD30 and forcing the variable
may cause problems. Therefore as of elilo-3.2, there is an option to 
avoid forcing the variable. In the config file, you can use 'noedd30' option
and on the command line, you can use the -E option.

When the variable is forced back to TRUE, th effect will only be seen after
a reboot. Shall you decide not to reboot immediately, elilo
will system still operate using the generic naming scheme.

When EDD3.0 is enabled the output of the EFI shell 'map' command looks similar
to this:

Device mapping table
  fs0  : Acpi(PNP0A03,2)/Pci(0|0)/Scsi(Pun0,Lun0)/HD(Part1,Sig00000000)
  fs1  : Acpi(PNP0A03,2)/Pci(0|0)/Scsi(Pun6,Lun0)/HD(Part1,Sig00000000)
  fs2  : Acpi(PNP0A03,0)/Pci(3|1)/Ata(Secondary,Master)/CDROM(Entry1)
  blk0 : Acpi(PNP0A03,0)/Pci(3|1)/Ata(Primary,Master)
  blk1 : Acpi(PNP0A03,2)/Pci(0|0)/Scsi(Pun0,Lun0)
  blk2 : Acpi(PNP0A03,2)/Pci(0|0)/Scsi(Pun0,Lun0)/HD(Part1,Sig00000000)
  blk3 : Acpi(PNP0A03,2)/Pci(0|0)/Scsi(Pun0,Lun0)/HD(Part2,Sig00000000)
  blk4 : Acpi(PNP0A03,2)/Pci(0|0)/Scsi(Pun0,Lun0)/HD(Part3,Sig00000000)
  blk5 : Acpi(PNP0A03,2)/Pci(0|0)/Scsi(Pun6,Lun0)
  blk6 : Acpi(PNP0A03,2)/Pci(0|0)/Scsi(Pun6,Lun0)/HD(Part1,Sig00000000)
  blk7 : Acpi(PNP0A03,2)/Pci(0|0)/Scsi(Pun6,Lun0)/HD(Part2,Sig00000000)
  blk8 : Acpi(PNP0A03,2)/Pci(0|0)/Scsi(Pun6,Lun0)/HD(Part3,Sig00000000)
  blk9 : Acpi(PNP0A03,2)/Pci(0|0)/Scsi(Pun6,Lun0)/HD(Part3,Sig00000000)/HD(Part1,Sig00000200)
  blkA : Acpi(PNP0A03,0)/Pci(3|1)/Ata(Secondary,Master)
  blkB : Acpi(PNP0A03,0)/Pci(3|1)/Ata(Secondary,Master)/CDROM(Entry1)
Shell> 

The same system with EDD3.0 disabled will look like this:
Device mapping table
  fs0  : VenHw(Unknown Device:80)/HD(Part1,Sig00000000)
  fs1  : VenHw(Unknown Device:81)/HD(Part1,Sig00000000)
  fs2  : VenHw(Unknown Device:FF)/CDROM(Entry1)
  blk0 : VenHw(Unknown Device:00)
  blk1 : VenHw(Unknown Device:80)
  blk2 : VenHw(Unknown Device:80)/HD(Part1,Sig00000000)
  blk3 : VenHw(Unknown Device:80)/HD(Part2,Sig00000000)
  blk4 : VenHw(Unknown Device:80)/HD(Part3,Sig00000000)
  blk5 : VenHw(Unknown Device:81)
  blk6 : VenHw(Unknown Device:81)/HD(Part1,Sig00000000)
  blk7 : VenHw(Unknown Device:81)/HD(Part2,Sig00000000)
  blk8 : VenHw(Unknown Device:81)/HD(Part3,Sig00000000)
  blk9 : VenHw(Unknown Device:81)/HD(Part3,Sig00000000)/HD(Part1,Sig00000200)
  blkA : VenHw(Unknown Device:FF)
  blkB : VenHw(Unknown Device:FF)/CDROM(Entry1)
Shell> 


EDD3.0 is an industry standard and the working draft can be downloaded from the
following web site:
	http://www.t13.org/

The document reference is D1386 (Enhanced Disk Drive Services 3.0).