Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] x86/EFI: define and use EFI_DIR make variable, defaulting to /usr/lib64/efi

["Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx>]

>>> On 24.07.12 at 11:39, Matt Wilson <msw@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 01:57:57AM -0700, Ian Campbell wrote:
>> /usr/lib64/efi seems as good as anything. Suitable alternatives might
>> be /usr/{lib,lib64}/xen/efi/...
> 
> I think that /boot/xen.efi could also be suitable, but it is farther
> from the pattern that we see in elilo and GRUB2 EFI binary locations
> on SUSE and Debian systems. But I figure that /usr/lib64/efi is as
> good as any other default choice.

/boot is certainly not a good choice - when there is a separate
boot partition, it's usually not that big, and putting stuff there
that's completely useless for the purpose of the partition doesn't
seem acceptable to me.

Jan


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