Re: DFreeBSD/arm64 EFI loader, Revision 3.0

Warner Losh <[email protected]> Wed, 18 Mar 2026 18:57:49 -0600

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This surprised me

Warner

On Wed, Mar 18, 2026, 6:54 PM Graham Perrin <[email protected]> wrote:

> Is the uppercase D at the beginning of the string negligible?
>
> Seen with ARM64 (1600013) but not AMD64.
>
> ----
>
> root@aarch64:~ # echo $SHELL
>
> /bin/tcsh
> root@aarch64:~ # strings /boot/efi/EFI/BOOT/BOOTAA64.EFI | grep FreeBSD
> | grep EFI
>
> DFreeBSD/arm64 EFI loader, Revision 3.0
> root@aarch64:~ # freebsd-version -kru ; uname -mvKU
>
> 16.0-CURRENT
> 16.0-CURRENT
> 16.0-CURRENT
> FreeBSD 16.0-CURRENT main-n284512-a0b3ef195260 GENERIC arm64 1600013
> 1600013
> root@aarch64:~ #
>
>
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