Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2020 07:38:22 +0300 From: Yuri Pankov <yuripv@yuripv.dev> To: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>, YUAN RUI <number201724@me.com> Cc: "freebsd-arch@freebsd.org" <freebsd-arch@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Because the loader.efi modified the size of EFI_STAGING_SIZE, vmware could not start the system above FreeBSD 12.2 Message-ID: <4020f013-7cb7-14bf-c518-44605ce7167e@yuripv.dev> In-Reply-To: <CANCZdfrpF8bR3CiTMvAvuS95n2qRPdpV_irc3OmXVZmP_dqncg@mail.gmail.com> References: <3833edf0-4717-1254-a005-e4be8820b010@me.com> <CANCZdfrfTknJ8__evX2b%2BMOBZqUFBQ%2BshsM01dkDts-KJ08=-A@mail.gmail.com> <72c45ce8-f89e-3f66-acce-54177109ea8a@me.com> <CANCZdfrpF8bR3CiTMvAvuS95n2qRPdpV_irc3OmXVZmP_dqncg@mail.gmail.com>
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Warner Losh wrote: > On Tue, Dec 15, 2020 at 9:34 AM YUAN RUI via freebsd-arch < > freebsd-arch@freebsd.org> wrote: > >> yes, all >> >> It cannot be the problem of too small memory. I allocated 32g of memory >> for vmware and this problem still occurs. After debugging, I found that >> if the memory allocation is greater than 64M, it will trigger a crash. >> > > OK. That's good to know. I'll have to think about the best way forward. > There was, at the time this was done (by others), the thought it was 'free' > and had no consequences. I can confirm reducing EFI_STAGING_SIZE back to 64 and building "cdrom" image successfully boots on ESXi 7, it does not with latest snapshot. More so, looks like https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=355132 should take care, in a dynamic way, of the original problem increasing EFI_STAGING_SIZE was supposed to fix? >> On 12/16/2020 12:09 AM, Warner Losh wrote: >>> Is this at all? Or only on memory sizes that are small? >>> >>> Warner >>> >>> On Tue, Dec 15, 2020 at 3:45 AM YUAN RUI via freebsd-arch < >>> freebsd-arch@freebsd.org> wrote: >>> >>>> https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=251866 Thanks a lot!
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