stand: bandaide for acpi

Old binaries do not set acpi.rsdp early enough. So when we boot with an
older loader.efi from an ESP that's not been updated, we assume there's
no ACPI on this system. This is unwise. Put a band-aide on this until we
can implement a proper 'feature' variable that the binary reports so we
can do conditionals for things like this in the future.

This is at best a rapid-response stop-gap.

Glanced at by: kevans
Sponsored by:		Netflix

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/UPDATING b/UPDATING
index 763f8f29a4f0..8b503e1ccfb6 100644
--- a/UPDATING
+++ b/UPDATING
@@ -27,6 +27,12 @@ NOTE TO PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT FreeBSD 15.x IS SLOW:
 	world, or to merely disable the most expensive debugging functionality
 	at runtime, run "ln -s 'abort:false,junk:false' /etc/malloc.conf".)
 
+20231120:
+	If you have an arm64 system that uses ACPI, you will need to update your
+	loader.efi in the ESP when you update past this point.  Detection of ACPI
+	was moved earlier in the binary so the scripts could use it, but old
+	binaries don't have this, so we default to 'no ACPI' in this case.
+
 20231113:
 	The WITHOUT_LLD_IS_LD option has been removed.  When LLD is enabled
 	it is always installed as /usr/bin/ld.