Re: DFreeBSD/arm64 EFI loader, Revision 3.0

In reply to: Graham Perrin : "DFreeBSD/arm64 EFI loader, Revision 3.0"
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From: Mark Millard <marklmi_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2026 19:50:13 UTC

On 3/18/26 17:54, Graham Perrin 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

Seems likely build specific. For example, my somewhat old context
gets:

# strings /boot/efi/EFI/BOOT/BOOTAA64.EFI | grep FreeBSD | grep EFI
FreeBSD/arm64 EFI loader, Revision 3.0

The ray@dlink.ua reply looks accurate to me. One would have to analyze
the file layout and establish were strings starts are in order to know
if the D was part of string of interest vs. not.

> 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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