06:42:34 <tsoome> jclulow this is because people have seen systems with missing memory mappings above 4GB - so when you get such memory allocated, you get nice exception on use... I havent seen such systems myself (physically or referenced by user), I am not sure if we really should keep this limit or not. I would rather try to remove it.... 
18:11:38 <danmcd> What's the quickest to find a cxgbe's firmware version on illumos?
18:18:27 <andyf> kstat -p t4nex:0:config:fw_vers
18:33:48 <rmustacc> fwflash -l
20:43:47 <richlowe> jclulow: my theory is that, like acpi before it, EFI has accumulated a lot of ancient wisdom from truly shitty 1st gen implementations.
20:43:59 <richlowe> and some day we just have to cut it all out, and see which system still breaks