When will the FreeBSD (u)EFI work?
    Andriy Gapon 
    avg at FreeBSD.org
       
    Mon Mar 30 07:00:21 UTC 2020
    
    
  
On 30/03/2020 06:11, Nathan Whitehorn wrote:
> The problem then is that we have treated loader as a
> continuously-updatable part of the OS, like the kernel, and the update
> system and development process assumes they get updated in sync.
I don't think that we ever did that, consciously.
Installing loader in installworld is / was a brain damage.
Anyway, my main point is that whenever we made significant changes to
loader->kernel "interface" we always tried to maintain backward compatibility.
And one of the reasons was that installworld != installkernel.
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