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Subject: Re: svn commit: r368721 - head/stand/efi/loader
To: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
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On Thu, Dec 17, 2020 at 1:47 PM Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> wrote:
>
> On 12/17/20 12:02 PM, Warner Losh wrote:
> > Author: imp
> > Date: Thu Dec 17 17:02:09 2020
> > New Revision: 368721
> > URL: https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/368721__;!!OToaGQ!5c1mLnhtRtEV6Cv_MTWpzXWaGZEYYDp4TJ6wVDzjVZiehAItts7ZWC15uNnQYRa5Fg$
> >
> > Log:
> >    Drop EFI_STAGING_SIZE back down to 64M
> >
> >    vmware can't cope with anything larger than 64MB. Drop this back to
> >    64MB everywhere but arm.
>
> There were all kinds of booting problems before this was bumped up.
> In fact, I still have EFI_STAGING_SIZE=128 in src.conf because I needed
> it be be able to boot when using Nvidia graphics.  By reducing this, I
> feel like we're just playing whack-a-mole.
>

IIRC those have long since become OBE as we'll now grow the staging
area to accommodate nvidia.