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Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2019 22:03:46 -0600
From: rebecca@bluestop.org
To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>, "Rodney W. Grimes"
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Subject: Re: Adding a new efi-update-loader script: need help
 understanding Makefile.inc1 for "make installworld"
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On Mar 25, 2019, 9:49 PM -0600, Rodney W. Grimes <freebsd-rwg=40gndrsh.dn=
smgr.net>, wrote:
>
> Is there anyway to stash an easy to extract =22version=22 in
> loader.* so that a Makefile/.sh script could easily check
> to see that your boot code is =3D=3D =60uname -KU=60 and just emit
> a warning at the end of installworld=3F


Currently, one of the strings that are embedded in loader*.efi reports th=
e loader version 1.1. Though we might want to have something like Linux=E2=
=80=99 boot.csv with a version in that file.

Rebecca