Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2021 04:42:30 -0800 (PST) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> To: Ed Maste <emaste@freebsd.org> Cc: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>, Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org>, "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@freebsd.org>, Brandon Bergren <bdragon@freebsd.org>, src-committers <src-committers@freebsd.org>, "<dev-commits-src-all@freebsd.org>" <dev-commits-src-all@freebsd.org>, dev-commits-src-main@freebsd.org Subject: Re: git: 2c26d77d989a - main - Remove /boot/efi from mtree, missed in 0b7472b3d8d2. Message-ID: <202103031242.123CgUmk051314@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> In-Reply-To: <CAPyFy2BpXmzw__QT4oerwG5aRaihNpULOKwL_vwsQJibiZgiYg@mail.gmail.com>
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> On Tue, 2 Mar 2021 at 19:30, Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> wrote: > > > > There has been some talk of moving the mount point to /efi, but I think that went nowhere... > > I thought about /efi based on arguments from the Linux world, more > info at https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/EFI_system_partition#Typical_mount_points. > I did open https://reviews.freebsd.org/D28814 to move the existing > uses to /efi. That said, I'm much more interested in us picking > something and using it in the installer/other tooling than whether > it's /boot/efi or /efi. > I personally prefer /efi, as I consider /boot to belong to FreeBSD and contain the FreeBSD specific boot code. EFI is a platform specific set of boot code and belongs to the system board, and though it may contain freeBSD specific code it may also contain OTHER code, especially in a multiboot environment. If it happens to align us with Linux, all the more reason to have it at /efi. Regards, -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@freebsd.org
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