On Sun, Mar 29, 2020 at 9:23 PM Rebecca Cran <rebe...@bsdio.com> wrote:

>
> > On Mar 29, 2020, at 9:11 PM, Nathan Whitehorn <nwhiteh...@freebsd.org>
> 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.
>
> But at the moment how often do users mount the ESP and update loader.efi
> on it? So it seems it rarely _needs_ to be updated at the moment.
>

True, but as we move from boot1.efi to loader.efi, the need will grow...
Even if we keep boot1.efi, loader.efi will be needed for interesting secure
systems, so we can't cop-out like we have in the past.

Warner
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