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by antonkochubey 673 days ago
Currently EFI partitions are on the order of 300-500 MB for common installs, that'd allow you to store millions of PNG-compressed QR codes.

Or even better, a small library which'd allow bootloader to generate it on the fly.

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On my system the full qrencode binary is 85K, and it supports a lot more output formats than needed in this application.

http://fukuchi.org/works/qrencode/index.html.en

That said, with iPhone cameras supporting live OCR and URL detection, a QR code would be unnecessary.