Re: Which version is BOOTX64.efi?

On 8/27/25 09:03, Kurt Jaeger wrote:
> Hi!
> 
>>> 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
> 
> I tried this:
> 
> strings loader.efi | fgrep Revision
> 11.1:
> FreeBSD/amd64 EFI loader, Revision 1.1
> 12.2:
> FreeBSD/amd64 EFI loader, Revision 1.1
> 13.2:
> FreeBSD/amd64 EFI loader, Revision 1.1
> 14.x/15.x:
> FreeBSD/amd64 EFI loader, Revision 3.0
> 
> but the size of the file was different in all 1.1 cases.
> So I'm not sure it really defines the exact version.
> 

We've historically basically not touched the loader version, but Warner
made the hop away from 1.1 after years and we could probably do a better
job bumping the minor version going forward.