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Date:      Tue, 26 Mar 2019 03:33:56 -0600
From:      Rebecca Cran <rebecca@bluestop.org>
To:        "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd-rwg@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>, Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
Cc:        Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>, "freebsd-arch@freebsd.org" <arch@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD Hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Adding a new efi-update-loader script: need help understanding Makefile.inc1 for "make installworld"
Message-ID:  <0828a41a-c25d-37a2-25b3-82c35c9a5c5d@bluestop.org>
In-Reply-To: <201903260621.x2Q6L4x7083615@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>
References:  <201903260621.x2Q6L4x7083615@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>

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On 3/26/19 12:21 AM, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:

>
> The current BTX 1.1 is bit rot, that value has not changed in ages
> and tells me nothing about what boot code I am running, why do we
> even output it?


Sure, but the fact it shows up as "FreeBSD/amd64 EFI loader, Revision 
1.1" in "strings /boot/loader.efi" shows one way we could easily embed a 
useful version number.


-- 
Rebecca Cran




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