Re: DFreeBSD/arm64 EFI loader, Revision 3.0

Morning hackers!

Sorry if I get the question wrong. But ...
You are using strings on the binary file, so it just scans for everything
like printable symbols ending with 0.
So, if (for example) the file address of the arch string is 0x1280, but
there is a printable 'D' at 0x127f, it will be displayed the way you show.
At the same time, that 'D' can be part of some other value like an integer.

Thanks!

чт, 19 бер. 2026 р. о 04:10 Graham Perrin <[email protected]> пише:

> On 19/03/2026 00:57, Warner Losh wrote:
> > This surprised me
>
>
> I wondered whether it was somehow a typo. Not as far as I can tell.
> Here's the (temporary) page that I used for the typescript file:
>
> <https://termbin.com/cwrc>
>
> The unabridged content is at the foot of this email. I get the same D
> after restarting the OS.
>
> The affected VM (in Virtual Machine Manager) was created a few weeks ago
> with FreeBSD-14.3-RELEASE-arm64-aarch64-disc1.iso. I probably converted
> to pkgbase and then upgraded to 16 (skipping 15). Also I probably did
> NOT bother updating the loader files, my bad.
> <https://www.freshports.org/sysutils/loaders-update/> not for ARM64. I
> might manually attend to the files later, or is that not necessary with
> pkgbase?
>
> I have a separate ARM64 16.0-CURRENT VM, on the same host, that does not
> (or not yet) have the peculiarity. Upgrading base and other packages
> now, I might follow up in a few hours (it's slow).
>
> ----
>
> Script started on Thu Mar 19 00:19:57 2026
> You have mail.
> 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:~ # exit
>
> exit
>
> Script done on Thu Mar 19 00:22:04 2026
>
>
>

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