UEFI: How to go about updating the ESP with loader.efi during installworld

Rebecca Cran rebecca at bluestop.org
Sun Nov 4 23:36:34 UTC 2018


On Sunday, 4 November 2018 16:07:17 MST Warner Losh wrote:

> Finally, I have a /dev/efi/esp pseudo label support coded up for geom
> (along with /dev/efi/boot for the putative root device). There's some
> issues with it, so I set it aside some time ago to work on other higher
> priority things. We could assume that if there's a filesystem mounted on
> /dev/efi/esp, we should update the boot blocks there. We could, by default,
> mount it as /efi. A weaker test, though one also in keeping with tradition,
> would be to only install into /efi if it's a directory, and it's also a
> mount point. that would preserve the status quo and not even need my
> /dev/efi/esp code so would work out better from a number of assumptions
> point of view.

I wonder if we could coordinate our efforts and push to get this finished off 
in the next few months? 
I've been pushing my changes to https://github.com/bcran/freebsd/tree/efi-esp-generation .

-- 
Rebecca




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