svn commit: r336658 - head

Warner Losh imp at FreeBSD.org
Mon Jul 23 22:15:37 UTC 2018


Author: imp
Date: Mon Jul 23 22:15:36 2018
New Revision: 336658
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/336658

Log:
  Say a little more about the new protocol.
  
  Requested by: emaste@

Modified:
  head/UPDATING

Modified: head/UPDATING
==============================================================================
--- head/UPDATING	Mon Jul 23 21:09:57 2018	(r336657)
+++ head/UPDATING	Mon Jul 23 22:15:36 2018	(r336658)
@@ -33,7 +33,10 @@ NOTE TO PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT FreeBSD 12.x IS SLOW:
 
 20180723:
 	loader.efi has been augmented to participate more fully in the
-	UEFI boot manager protocol.
+	UEFI boot manager protocol. loader.efi will now look at the
+	BootXXXX environment variable to determine if a specific kernel
+	or root partition was specified. XXXX is derived from BootCurrent.
+	efibootmgr(8) manages these standard UEFI variables.
 
 20180720:
 	zfsloader's functionality has now been folded into loader.


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