Re: UEFI: How to go about updating the ESP with loader.efi during installworld

From: Rebecca Cran <rebecca_at_bluestop.org>
Date: Sun, 04 Nov 2018 16:10:41 -0700
On Sunday, 4 November 2018 15:56:25 MST Warner Losh wrote:

> I think that's a really really bad idea. We should *NEVER* create them by
> default. We are only sliding by on the coat-tails of compatibility by using
> efi/boot/boot*.efi. We shouldn't use those at all, unless there's a
> compelling reason (like BIOS bogosity) for doing so. I had no plans to
> update or use those, at least by default. We should *ONLY* be using those
> for *REMOVABLE* media, since that's the only place they are well defined in
> the standard.

Thanks, I had wrongly presumed it was in the spec for fixed storage as well 
given that Windows, Linux etc. creates them. Looking at the 2.7 specification I 
can see I was wrong and agree we should only create files in efi/freebsd.

-- 
Rebecca
Received on Sun Nov 04 2018 - 22:10:44 UTC

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