git: b304cd9789ca - stable/12 - Drop EFI_STAGING_SIZE back down to 64M
Ryan Moeller
freqlabs at FreeBSD.org
Tue Mar 23 15:36:24 UTC 2021
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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