diff --git a/UPDATING b/UPDATING
index 763f8f29a4f..8b503e1ccfb 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.
diff --git a/stand/lua/core.lua b/stand/lua/core.lua
index 71878330968..f4a2815769c 100644
--- a/stand/lua/core.lua
+++ b/stand/lua/core.lua
@@ -136,9 +136,14 @@ function core.hasACPI()
 	return loader.getenv("acpi.rsdp") ~= nil
 end
 
+function core.isX86()
+	return loader.machine_arch == "i386" or loader.machine_arch == "amd64"
+end
+
 function core.getACPI()
 	if not core.hasACPI() then
-		return false
+		-- x86 requires ACPI pretty much
+		return false or core.isX86()
 	end
 
 	-- Otherwise, respect disabled if it's set