On Mon, Mar 1, 2021 at 10:45 AM Nathan Whitehorn <nwhiteh...@freebsd.org> wrote: > > > > On 3/1/21 11:42 AM, Kyle Evans wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 1, 2021 at 10:39 AM Nathan Whitehorn <nwhiteh...@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 barely > >>>> theoretically possible, but in reality we'll likely never use it.... > >>>> > >>>> 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 platforms, and > >>> it should continue to do so instead of using the existence of a /boot/efi > >>> directory as the only clue. > >>> > >>> Currently bsdinstall bails out and leaves powerpc* in a half-installed > >>> 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.
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 == GPT, and /boot/msdos should probably be scoped down to PART_SCHEME == MBR where it's used at the moment. _______________________________________________ dev-commits-src-all@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/dev-commits-src-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "dev-commits-src-all-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
