On Sat, Dec 17, 2016 at 6:38 AM, Dimitry Andric <d...@freebsd.org> wrote: > On 16 Dec 2016, at 23:56, Warner Losh <i...@bsdimp.com> wrote: >> >> On Fri, Dec 16, 2016 at 11:00 AM, Dimitry Andric <d...@freebsd.org> wrote: > ... >>> Yes, this is almost exactly what I have done on a machine that was >>> originally installed with gptzfsboot on the first partition, which was >>> 512K. Since all the partitions on this SSD were aligned to 1M, I >>> reduced the size of the first partition to 224K, freeing up a hole of >>> exactly 800K for an EFI partition: > ... >> You likely want to carve out more like 50MB instead of 800k for UEFI >> partition. 800k is the minimum, but it also precludes many things you >> may need to do with UEFI applications down the line. > > Well, this is the default boot1.efifat size. If you think 50MB is more > reasonable, the boot1.efifat size should have a corresponding size.
We shouldn't have a boot1.efifat at all. We should make the fat based on what the size of the partition is. boot1.efifat is an ugly hack to make the installers happy when we should have fixed the installers. The standard suggests an even larger 200MB. On most modern drives, the delta this usage is tiny, though on SD card-based systems 200MB takes up too large a percentage. > That said, as long as there are almost no such UEFI applications, I'm > not bothering. Besides, even if there were, I don't have any interest > in the UEFI "ecosphere" as-is. I see it as an ugly-but-necessary > pre-bootloader environment only. At work we get programs to run from time to time that upgrade BIOS that's in different cards in our system, or to dump diagnostics. It's helpful to have the space space when you need it, because when you need it, you really need it. It's also used to deploy "capsules" that have the upgrades for the BIOS (there's a standard now, but we don't implement it all yet). There are secure boot things you need space for as well. If you judge from today's, barely enough to boot a single partition w/o the other features of our traditional pre-/boot/loader environment, I can see how you might think there's nothing but 'waste' here. However, as we flesh out things, I think we'd be doing our users a disservice from doing anything less than ~50MB by default. Warner _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
