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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Andriy Gapon


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