Re: Which version is BOOTX64.efi?

27.08.2025 15:08, Peter 'PMc' Much wrote:

>   I am feeling increasing pain from finding EFI partitions floating
> around and containing spurious binaries in /EFI/BOOT/BOOTX64.efi,
> where there seems to be no means whatsoever for figuring out what
> these binaries do/are at all, or which version of it they would be
> and what they can support.
> 
> Currently I am in the process of migrating from R.13 to R.14, and
> strangely the loader is now in the process of shrinking (from 862720
> to 662528), so even "the larger the newer" won't hold.
> 
> Question: is there any concept to get some proper version information
> into these binaries, from which then some identity and the commit tag
> could be retrieved from which they were created?

Maybe:

# strings /boot/loader.efi | fgrep Revision
DFreeBSD/amd64 EFI loader, Revision 3.0