Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2021 11:36:22 -0400 From: Ryan Moeller <freqlabs@FreeBSD.org> To: Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@freebsd.org>, Ryan Moeller <freqlabs@freebsd.org> Cc: src-committers <src-committers@freebsd.org>, dev-commits-src-all@freebsd.org, dev-commits-src-branches@freebsd.org Subject: Re: git: b304cd9789ca - stable/12 - Drop EFI_STAGING_SIZE back down to 64M Message-ID: <177dd150-c20f-b988-3a3e-008f70cfaf0c@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <CAH7qZfs5-Df86_rE0cwdaSfbSDcZCBF3-BPN0OkE1SxAPcBP%2BA@mail.gmail.com> References: <202103222148.12MLm6Wl074553@gitrepo.freebsd.org> <CAH7qZfs5-Df86_rE0cwdaSfbSDcZCBF3-BPN0OkE1SxAPcBP%2BA@mail.gmail.com>
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On 3/22/21 6:08 PM, Maxim Sobolev wrote: > Hmm, that's really annoying, reminiscent of the old DOS days, where > you might have few megs of memory, but won't be able to use it due to > some bios/motherboard quirk. :-/ > > Can we at least have some specific section for VMWare to teak that in? > We already have the HYPER-V section in that file, so it's not unheard > of. At the very least other virtual machines (i.e. VirtualBox in the > EFI mode or majority "real" EFI servers) do not have this restriction. > My understanding is that the staging area will dynamically grow at run time if necessary: https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/commit/?id=821e3395c053a35e666c99c94bbeed84f7da2dcf - Ryan
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