On Mon, Mar 1, 2021 at 10:39 AM Nathan Whitehorn <nwhiteh...@freebsd.org> wrote:
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> On 2/28/21 3:44 PM, Brandon Bergren wrote:
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> > On Sun, Feb 28, 2021, at 2:25 PM, Warner Losh wrote:
> >> Yes. I agree as well. I was just hoping to say just that: EFI is barely
> >> theoretically possible, but in reality we'll likely never use it....
> >>
> >> The net effect is that we don't want to install efi on powerpc on freebsd.
> >>
> >> Warner
> >>
> > Yeah. The code before the change excluded mips and powerpc platforms, and 
> > it should continue to do so instead of using the existence of a /boot/efi 
> > directory as the only clue.
> >
> > Currently bsdinstall bails out and leaves powerpc* in a half-installed 
> > state because the die in the uname case propagates to the main script, so 
> > it never runs the bits after the bootconfig.
> >
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> So that was a deliberate choice to keep the list of places that know
> about efi vs. non-EFI centralized. I'd prefer to just not make that
> directory on systems where it doesn't apply rather than messing with the
> installer. Do you know where it is being made?
> -Nathan

It's part of the hierarchy in ^/etc/mtree/BSD.root.dist
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