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Date:      Mon, 1 Mar 2021 12:54:00 -0500
From:      Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org>
To:        Kyle Evans <kevans@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Brandon Bergren <bdragon@freebsd.org>, Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>, Kevin Bowling <kevin.bowling@kev009.com>, Jessica Clarke <jrtc27@freebsd.org>, Colin Percival <cperciva@tarsnap.com>, src-committers <src-committers@freebsd.org>, dev-commits-src-all@freebsd.org, dev-commits-src-main@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: git: 0b7472b3d8d2 - main - Mount the EFI system partition (ESP) on newly-installed systems.
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On 3/1/21 11:50 AM, Kyle Evans wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 1, 2021 at 10:45 AM Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.or=
g> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 3/1/21 11:42 AM, Kyle Evans wrote:
>>> On Mon, Mar 1, 2021 at 10:39 AM Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.=
org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 2/28/21 3:44 PM, Brandon Bergren wrote:
>>>>> On Sun, Feb 28, 2021, at 2:25 PM, Warner Losh wrote:
>>>>>> Yes. I agree as well. I was just hoping to say just that: EFI is b=
arely
>>>>>> theoretically possible, but in reality we'll likely never use it..=
=2E.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The net effect is that we don't want to install efi on powerpc on =
freebsd.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Warner
>>>>>>
>>>>> Yeah. The code before the change excluded mips and powerpc platform=
s, and it should continue to do so instead of using the existence of a /b=
oot/efi directory as the only clue.
>>>>>
>>>>> Currently bsdinstall bails out and leaves powerpc* in a half-instal=
led state because the die in the uname case propagates to the main script=
, so it never runs the bits after the bootconfig.
>>>>>
>>>> So that was a deliberate choice to keep the list of places that know=

>>>> about efi vs. non-EFI centralized. I'd prefer to just not make that
>>>> directory on systems where it doesn't apply rather than messing with=
 the
>>>> installer. Do you know where it is being made?
>>>> -Nathan
>>> It's part of the hierarchy in ^/etc/mtree/BSD.root.dist
>>>
>> Is there a reason it needs to be? The installer bits all make it when
>> needed already, so just removing it there seems like the simplest path=
=2E
> I can't think of a reason, as long as both the release(7) scripts and
> the installer create it as needed -- I note that vmimage.subr seems to
> create it itself, but arm.subr seems to get it wrong atm. It'll need
> to create /boot/efi for PART_SCHEME =3D=3D GPT, and /boot/msdos should
> probably be scoped down to PART_SCHEME =3D=3D MBR where it's used at th=
e
> moment.
>
The /boot/uboot in BSD.root.dist also looks like cruft to me, but maybe=20
best to leave for now?
-Nathan




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