git: 0b7472b3d8d2 - main - Mount the EFI system partition (ESP) on newly-installed systems.

[Nathan Whitehorn]

On 3/1/21 11:42 AM, Kyle Evans wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 1, 2021 at 10:39 AM Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn at 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.
-Nathan