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Subject: Re: Adding a new efi-update-loader script: need help understanding
 Makefile.inc1 for "make installworld"
To: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd-rwg@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