Adding a new efi-update-loader script: need help understanding Makefile.inc1 for "make installworld"

[Warner Losh]

On Tue, Mar 26, 2019, 3:33 AM Rebecca Cran <rebecca at bluestop.org> wrote:

> On 3/26/19 12:21 AM, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:
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> >
> > The current BTX 1.1 is bit rot, that value has not changed in ages
> > and tells me nothing about what boot code I am running, why do we
> > even output it?
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> Sure, but the fact it shows up as "FreeBSD/amd64 EFI loader, Revision
> 1.1" in "strings /boot/loader.efi" shows one way we could easily embed a
> useful version number.
>

It's the useful part that I objected to. We wanted to do it, but haven't
for the last 20 years of trying. I doubt we'll do any better in the future,
especially with the repeatable build stuff closing many doors of trying to
automate it.

Warner

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