Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2020 09:59:43 +0300 From: Andriy Gapon <avg@FreeBSD.org> To: Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> Cc: FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, bsd-lists@bsdforge.com Subject: Re: When will the FreeBSD (u)EFI work? Message-ID: <b4854bc4-fa6f-f5cd-da62-78fcdb1a1b8d@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <18df34fe-6256-6e68-ead5-481e83a501fe@freebsd.org> References: <318FDBAF-448F-4C55-A9A8-69D71A73E43B@me.com> <344e85545cfc47c9835fc5918e5b1dc1@udns.ultimatedns.net> <20200329211137.012a8fd62b58525b027bcfb6@dec.sakura.ne.jp> <40bacb99-d463-cbad-3ccf-b3ddd6856d10@bsdio.com> <CACNAnaF-5ZD-9Cu%2BBrNtWE-LCZsbhzoW=CwcLVZ-JGMM1QdVkQ@mail.gmail.com> <675a41c7-46c1-f548-b285-e5ede55db76a@freebsd.org> <16728.1585537356@kaos.jnpr.net> <18df34fe-6256-6e68-ead5-481e83a501fe@freebsd.org>
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On 30/03/2020 06:11, Nathan Whitehorn 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. I don't think that we ever did that, consciously. Installing loader in installworld is / was a brain damage. Anyway, my main point is that whenever we made significant changes to loader->kernel "interface" we always tried to maintain backward compatibility. And one of the reasons was that installworld != installkernel. -- Andriy Gapon
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