On 9/17/25 06:51, Peter 'PMc' Much wrote:
It is about a deliberate decision to change system defaults in a way as certain commercial powers want it, no matter whether that implies beating up some ordinary users like me.
Release engineer here. I'm not paid by any nefarious "commercial powers" (although I wouldn't object to getting paid something for the hundreds of hours I'm spending on managing this release), and I approved the change. When our CPU is pretending to be a CPU from the 1980s there isn't enough memory to support everything we'd like to do, and some tradeoffs were needed. Warner consulted within the project and I think we picked the right tradeoffs. The long-term solution here is to just stop using BIOS boot mode. There are very few places (mostly obscure virtualization environments) where we can't boot EFI at this point. -- Colin Percival FreeBSD Release Engineering Lead & EC2 platform maintainer Founder, Tarsnap | www.tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid
