Re: DFreeBSD/arm64 EFI loader, Revision 3.0

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).

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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