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

[Warner Losh]

On Sun, Nov 4, 2018 at 4:10 PM Rebecca Cran <rebecca at bluestop.org> wrote:

> On Sunday, 4 November 2018 15:56:25 MST Warner Losh wrote:
>
> > I think that's a really really bad idea. We should *NEVER* create them by
> > default. We are only sliding by on the coat-tails of compatibility by
> using
> > efi/boot/boot*.efi. We shouldn't use those at all, unless there's a
> > compelling reason (like BIOS bogosity) for doing so. I had no plans to
> > update or use those, at least by default. We should *ONLY* be using those
> > for *REMOVABLE* media, since that's the only place they are well defined
> in
> > the standard.
>
> Thanks, I had wrongly presumed it was in the spec for fixed storage as
> well
> given that Windows, Linux etc. creates them. Looking at the 2.7
> specification I
> can see I was wrong and agree we should only create files in efi/freebsd.
>

I don't know if I've mentioned this, but Benno registered /efi/freebsd with
the UEFI consortium, so we own everything in that directory as a result.

Warner