NetBSD Problem Report #60045

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Subject: efiboot: version not up-to-date.
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>Number:         60045
>Category:       kern
>Synopsis:       efiboot: version not up-to-date.
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    kern-bug-people
>State:          closed
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Sun Mar 01 10:25:00 +0000 2026
>Closed-Date:    Sat Sep 19 00:12:06 +0000 2026
>Last-Modified:  Sat Sep 19 00:12:06 +0000 2026
>Originator:     RVP
>Release:        NetBSD/amd64 11.99.5
>Organization:
>Environment:
NetBSD/amd64 11.99.5
>Description:
The EFI bootloader version hasn't been updated despite these major
changes:

1. KERNEL_DIR support (pgoyette@)

2. ucom(4) support (manu@)

It's still at version 1.2.
>How-To-Repeat:
Boot NetBSD-HEAD with EFI.
Observe version in the bootloader.
>Fix:
---START patch---
diff -urN a/src/sys/arch/i386/stand/efiboot/version b/src/sys/arch/i386/stand/efiboot/version
--- a/src/sys/arch/i386/stand/efiboot/version	2024-09-22 03:25:39.767472824 +0000
+++ b/src/sys/arch/i386/stand/efiboot/version	2026-03-01 10:13:05.486369255 +0000
@@ -11,5 +11,7 @@
 	the default menu options from prompt "boot" command, new "root"
 	command that changes default root, bi-endian support in disklabel,
 	RAID and UFS, framebuffer fixes, reloc command, and NFSv3.
-1.3	Fix PXE device path type, fixes for buggy ACPI implementations, and
+1.3:	Fix PXE device path type, fixes for buggy ACPI implementations, and
 	serial console support with raw I/O accessors.
+1.4:	KERNEL_DIR support added.
+1.5:	ucom(4) support added.
---END patch---

>Release-Note:

>Audit-Trail:
From: "Jonathan A. Kollasch" <jakllsch@netbsd.org>
To: gnats-bugs@gnats.NetBSD.org
Cc: 
Subject: PR/60045 CVS commit: src/sys/arch/i386/stand/efiboot
Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2026 00:06:17 +0000

 Module Name:	src
 Committed By:	jakllsch
 Date:		Sat Sep 19 00:06:16 UTC 2026

 Modified Files:
 	src/sys/arch/i386/stand/efiboot: version

 Log Message:
 Fix syntax and add versions noted in PR 60045 by RVP.


 To generate a diff of this commit:
 cvs rdiff -u -r1.6 -r1.7 src/sys/arch/i386/stand/efiboot/version

 Please note that diffs are not public domain; they are subject to the
 copyright notices on the relevant files.

State-Changed-From-To: open->closed
State-Changed-By: jakllsch@NetBSD.org
State-Changed-When: Sat, 19 Sep 2026 00:12:06 +0000
State-Changed-Why:
fix applied


>Unformatted:

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