efidp(8)

efidp8

Uefi device path manipulation

Usage

efidp [-fp] [--parse] [--format]

Overview

This program converts “Unified Extensible Firmware Interface” (UEFI) Device Paths, as defined in the UEFI standard, to and from binary form. Binary and textual forms are defined in Chapter 9 of the UEFI Specification.

-f --format

Formats a binary UEFI Device Path into its canonical UTF-8 textual form. A binary Device Path can be no longer than 65536 bytes. The textual form must fit into 65536 bytes. Multiple binary device paths may be specified.

-p --parse

Parses a UEFI Device Path UTF-8 specification and outputs the binary Device Path form. Only one device path is parsed, even if there are multiple present in the input. Leading white space is ignored. The resulting binary Device Path can be no longer than 65536 bytes. Multiple lines may be specified. Each one will be translated.

-e ---to-efi

Translate a Unix file path to an EFI Device Path. The output is the textual representation of the EFI Device Path.

-u ---to-unix

Translate an EFI device path to a Unix file path. The input is the textual representation of the EFI Device Path.

Releases

24 releases since FreeBSD 11.1-RELEASE; the text changed 10 times.

  1. 11.1
  2. 11.2
  3. 11.3
  4. 11.4
  5. 12.0
  6. 12.1
  7. 12.2
  8. 12.3
  9. 12.4
  10. 13.0–13.2
  11. 13.3–16.0

--format since FreeBSD 11.2-RELEASE; --parse since FreeBSD 11.2-RELEASE; -f since FreeBSD 11.2-RELEASE; -p since FreeBSD 11.2-RELEASE.

History

The efidp utility first appeared in FreeBSD 11.1.

From base 16.0-CURRENT-20261027-61c70dc16a79 in FreeBSD 16.0-CURRENT (2026-10-27). Parsed by carta from the page's mdoc source.