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From: Greg KH <gregkh@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Proper installation path for efi binaries (.efi)
Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2013 14:34:56 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130204223456.GA21225@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51100876.5060507@pluskal.org>

On Mon, Feb 04, 2013 at 08:13:58PM +0100, Martin Pluskal wrote:
> Hi
> 	I am curious what is the proper path for installation of efi binaries
> (such as shim.efi) in gentoo. I don't think that installing them
> directly into /boot/efi... is proper way - it seems to me that
> /usr/lib64/efi or /usr/libexec/efi is more appropriate location for
> them. What's your opinion?

It depends on if you want the bootloader to use the binary or not.  If
you do, it needs to be in /boot/efi/, otherwise it will never be able to
be run by the UEFI system.

Unless you really think that having /usr/ as a vfat filesystem is ok?
:)

thanks,

greg k-h


  reply	other threads:[~2013-02-04 22:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-02-04 19:13 [gentoo-dev] Proper installation path for efi binaries (.efi) Martin Pluskal
2013-02-04 22:34 ` Greg KH [this message]
2013-02-04 22:45   ` Martin Pluskal
2013-02-04 22:59     ` Greg KH
2013-02-04 23:14       ` Martin Pluskal
2013-02-05  4:24         ` Alec Warner
2013-02-05 10:05           ` Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
2013-02-09  3:21         ` Maxim Kammerer

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