Re: 13.0-RELEASE schedule update: PR 251866 (unable to boot some modern hardware)

On Wed, Mar 24, 2021 at 12:42:46AM +0000, Graham Perrin wrote:
> On 23/03/2021 18:57, Glen Barber wrote:
> > At least one issue has been brought to our attention that affects new
> > installations, which as we currently have no precedent for re-rolling
> > ISOs and/or VM images post-release, warrant adding RC4 to the 13.0
> > schedule.
> > 
> > Please be advised that we are still only accepting critical changes
> > only, with the exception of a few post-RC3 requests for approval that
> > have trickled in.
> 
> …
> 
> I should probably plead for the essence of <https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/commit/?id=b304cd9789ca7ff3df629af42a976450e8660a11>,
> very recently committed to stable/12, to be committed to releng/13.0 and
> main.
> 
> If I understand correctly, the effects of PR 251866
> <https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=251866> are not limited
> to vmware.
> 
> The same symptoms – essentially, unable to boot – are seen with (for
> example) HP ProBook 440 G7.
> 

This was merged to releng/13.0 in:

 commit 4d6047edb675e52b8fad57135ab3ded8e66d0dac
 Author: Warner Losh <imp_at_FreeBSD.org>
 Date:   Thu Dec 17 17:02:09 2020 +0000

    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.

I made the same mistake thinking it was not already merged to 13.x.

Glen