Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2018 16:13:30 -0700 From: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> To: Rebecca Cran <rebecca@bluestop.org> Cc: FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, Toomas Soome <tsoome@me.com> Subject: Re: UEFI: How to go about updating the ESP with loader.efi during installworld Message-ID: <CANCZdfoSfe=Kj8=RHhYeoEwOoo4Rj_RvmQaw19w%2BU-dmtuScKA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <5211180.XOh7uYVVfo@photon.int.bluestop.org> References: <5091656.8gLySxXtyI@photon.int.bluestop.org> <1713323.u6MfGjpqfb@photon.int.bluestop.org> <CANCZdfq_ZWZO15nq9aiijE5kT4-4ZwPxjCpENjF40R-in1sriQ@mail.gmail.com> <5211180.XOh7uYVVfo@photon.int.bluestop.org>
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On Sun, Nov 4, 2018 at 4:10 PM Rebecca Cran <rebecca@bluestop.org> wrote: > 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. > I don't know if I've mentioned this, but Benno registered /efi/freebsd with the UEFI consortium, so we own everything in that directory as a result. Warner
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