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
