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Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2016 21:50:29 +0100
From: Andrew Turner <andrew@fubar.geek.nz>
To: Xin Li <delphij@delphij.net>
Cc: FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org>, d@delphij.net
Subject: Re: EFI boot: can we make loader.efi work as BOOT{x64, aa64, arm,
 ia32}.efi?
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On Sat, 30 Jul 2016 23:20:55 -0700
Xin Li <delphij@delphij.net> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I finally got some time to explore the UEFI boot process (kudos to
> everyone who made this work!) and getting myself familiarize with the
> basics.
> 
> One quick question -- Is there some technical restriction that
> prevents us from merging boot1.efi and loader.efi into one binary?

The only issue I know about is loader.efi will use the wrong partition
to load the kernel. This is because it assumes the kernel is to be
loaded from the same filesystem as it was.

Andrew