[Bug 200109] [PATCH] Minor EFI boot image enhancements

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--- Comment #5 from Pedro F. Giffuni  ---
(In reply to Kyle Evans from comment #4)

Heh ... and as I wrote .. "I won't feel offended if the patch is rejected" :).

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[Bug 200109] [PATCH] Minor EFI boot image enhancements

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Kyle Evans  changed:

   What|Removed |Added

 Status|New |Closed
 CC||kev...@freebsd.org
 Resolution|--- |Rejected

--- Comment #4 from Kyle Evans  ---
Hi Pedro,

It's only seen 3 years of deliberation, but I'm going to go ahead and reject
this PR to ease your clearly worried mind. =) We plan to evict boot1.efi{,fat}
soon, so I think it's not worth worrying about anymore.

Thanks,

Kyle Evans

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[Bug 200109] [PATCH] Minor EFI boot image enhancements

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--- Comment #3 from Pedro F. Giffuni  ---
(In reply to Ed Maste from comment #1)

Well, it's rather silly but I wanted to keep some standard floppy size (perhaps
1.44M ?).

What would be really cool is if there were some way to install the Clover EFI
bootloader:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/cloverefiboot/

This would be really useful for those of us that still keep an old BIOS machine
with an under-utilized 3T HD and want to dual boot.

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[Bug 200109] [PATCH] Minor EFI boot image enhancements

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--- Comment #2 from Pedro F. Giffuni  ---
Created attachment 192400
  --> https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=192400=edit
Small enhancements to the EFI image generation

Update for new path and other changes.

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--- Comment #1 from Ed Maste  ---
WRT the FAT image, 800K is indeed too small, but what we really need to do is
start running newfs_msdos on the EFI partition at install time so that it's
200MB and has enough room for dual-boot cases etc.

This should really happen for 12.0, and I'd rather avoid proliferating
different sizes.

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[Bug 200109] [PATCH] Minor EFI boot image enhancements

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Bug ID: 200109
   Summary: [PATCH] Minor EFI boot image enhancements
   Product: Base System
   Version: 11.0-CURRENT
  Hardware: Any
OS: Any
Status: New
  Keywords: patch
  Severity: Affects Only Me
  Priority: ---
 Component: misc
  Assignee: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org
  Reporter: p...@freebsd.org
  Keywords: patch

Created attachment 156626
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Small enhancements to the EFI image generation

This is a rather silly patch (and untested since I don't use EFI on the desktop
I run FreeBSD on) to enhance the current EFI Fat image:

1- Enlarge the boot image to make it match the size of an older 5 1/4 floppy.
More space won't hurt and it seems better to use a somewhat standard size,
2- Set the OEM label to MSWIN4.1. This is the recommended value in Microsoft
Extensible Firmware Initiative FAT32 File System Specification:

There are many misconceptions about this field. It is only a name string.
Microsoft operating systems don’t pay any attention to this field. Some FAT
drivers do. This is the reason that the indicated string, “MSWIN4.1”, is the
recommended setting, because it is the setting least likely to cause
compatibility problems. If you want to put something else in here, that is your
option, but the result may be that some FAT drivers might not recognize the
volume. Typically this is some indication of what system formatted the volume.

I doubt either of these has any effect nowadays, and I won't feel offended if
the patch is rejected, but it may be better to adopt such changes earlier
rather than later.

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