Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2020 21:26:06 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> To: Rebecca Cran <rebecca@bsdio.com> Cc: Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org>, "Simon J. Gerraty" <sjg@juniper.net>, Kyle Evans <kevans@freebsd.org>, Tomoaki AOKI <junchoon@dec.sakura.ne.jp>, FreeBSD Current <FreeBSD-current@freebsd.org>, Chris H <bsd-lists@bsdforge.com> Subject: Re: When will the FreeBSD (u)EFI work? Message-ID: <CANCZdfquXe_zb71kSJ6k8DtOn-UuJwJa803d9ZyGK-RZDpB8oA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4C050E22-E571-47ED-87A1-FE1BAC69A073@bsdio.com> References: <18df34fe-6256-6e68-ead5-481e83a501fe@freebsd.org> <4C050E22-E571-47ED-87A1-FE1BAC69A073@bsdio.com>
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On Sun, Mar 29, 2020 at 9:23 PM Rebecca Cran <rebecca@bsdio.com> wrote: > > > On Mar 29, 2020, at 9:11 PM, Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> > wrote: > > > > The problem then is that we have treated loader as a > > continuously-updatable part of the OS, like the kernel, and the update > > system and development process assumes they get updated in sync. > > But at the moment how often do users mount the ESP and update loader.efi > on it? So it seems it rarely _needs_ to be updated at the moment. > True, but as we move from boot1.efi to loader.efi, the need will grow... Even if we keep boot1.efi, loader.efi will be needed for interesting secure systems, so we can't cop-out like we have in the past. Warner
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