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

Warner Losh imp at bsdimp.com
Sun Feb 28 02:39:38 UTC 2021


On Sat, Feb 27, 2021, 6:25 PM Jessica Clarke <jrtc27 at freebsd.org> wrote:

> On 28 Feb 2021, at 01:22, Brandon Bergren <bdragon at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Sat, Feb 27, 2021, at 7:10 PM, Brandon Bergren wrote:
> >> This is mistakenly detecting pseries powerpc64* as an EFI platform and
> >> causing install to error out. Please add back the uname checks so this
> >> code doesn't run on powerpc*.
> >
> > Specifically, the /boot/efi stuff in
> usr.sbin/bsdinstall/scripts/bootconfig should not run on mips / 32 bit ARM
> / powerpc* systems. I believe /boot/efi is always created so it can't be
> used to infer existence of EFI.
>
> 32-bit Arm can boot via EFI. Just mips* and powerpc*.
>

There was some rumblings of little endian powerpc64 efi, but I don't think
it's ready...

>
Yea, we have long since switched our preferred boot on arm to EFI... though
we don't have installer images for 32bit arm, which is this runs... so it's
needed for correctness, but not a practical difference...

Warner

>


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