From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C780138864 for ; Mon, 4 Feb 2013 22:32:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 72145E0417; Mon, 4 Feb 2013 22:32:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from out5-smtp.messagingengine.com (out5-smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.29]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 857AEE0268 for ; Mon, 4 Feb 2013 22:32:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from compute5.internal (compute5.nyi.mail.srv.osa [10.202.2.45]) by gateway1.nyi.mail.srv.osa (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC56220A9B for ; Mon, 4 Feb 2013 17:32:41 -0500 (EST) Received: from frontend1.nyi.mail.srv.osa ([10.202.2.160]) by compute5.internal (MEProxy); Mon, 04 Feb 2013 17:32:41 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d= messagingengine.com; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id :references:mime-version:content-type:in-reply-to; s=smtpout; bh=xHUi+OW5Y3TIM4kQY++JY0NMbdQ=; b=V8fcqu4Qfy22w67ojfgJHaDlCnUr DkhNQIRboNc2blmpOtBNeWLBp4z7/Bnrmhh15K3KdtJOgTA6cVmn8leH+L53nCHq LVa+CaMfM9WpVfIkE6ssgunB6BCLUNn0qA8aIVOInF7z33rAcgcVaJavS9XGOVMU EESk8r0OC8OFOPg= X-Sasl-enc: 2D4t7VBUT+jGNboYbB55odYLSG2UxZYgKzjHhDfkFBL1 1360017160 Received: from localhost (unknown [173.255.252.33]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id E624A8E092B; Mon, 4 Feb 2013 17:32:40 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2013 14:34:56 -0800 From: Greg KH To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Proper installation path for efi binaries (.efi) Message-ID: <20130204223456.GA21225@kroah.com> References: <51100876.5060507@pluskal.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <51100876.5060507@pluskal.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Archives-Salt: ccaaa030-ee11-4dc1-bb6b-0bf30e940eef X-Archives-Hash: f776eb1abd997e437b1f3ff100f7991e 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