I noticed something in the optiboot bootloader hex file for Arduino. Why so?

Question

When I look at the bootloader hex file, the starting address from the word type of the program is 7E00 according to intel-hex format. This is the 3F00. The interesting part starts right now. According to the Atmega328p datasheet, the BOOTS1 and BOOTS2 registers must be set for this to start from 3F00. But when I look at the Arduino Uno fuse settings,

lfuse = 0xff
hfuse = 0xde
efuse = 0x05 

is defined as such. In this case . The BOOTS1 and BOOTS2 parameters in the High fuse settings parameter are set as not set.

Is there something I'm missing?

Here is the optibootbootloader.hex file

:107E0000112484B714BE81FFF0D085E080938100F7
:107E100082E08093C00088E18093C10086E0809377
:107E2000C20080E18093C4008EE0C9D0259A86E02C
:107E300020E33CEF91E0309385002093840096BBD3
:107E4000B09BFECF1D9AA8958150A9F7CC24DD24C4
:107E500088248394B5E0AB2EA1E19A2EF3E0BF2EE7
:107E6000A2D0813461F49FD0082FAFD0023811F036
:107E7000013811F484E001C083E08DD089C08234E0
:107E800011F484E103C0853419F485E0A6D080C0E4
:107E9000853579F488D0E82EFF2485D0082F10E0AE
:107EA000102F00270E291F29000F111F8ED06801E7
:107EB0006FC0863521F484E090D080E0DECF843638
:107EC00009F040C070D06FD0082F6DD080E0C81688
:107ED00080E7D80618F4F601B7BEE895C0E0D1E017
:107EE00062D089930C17E1F7F0E0CF16F0E7DF06D8
:107EF00018F0F601B7BEE89568D007B600FCFDCFD4
:107F0000A601A0E0B1E02C9130E011968C91119780
:107F100090E0982F8827822B932B1296FA010C0160
:107F200087BEE89511244E5F5F4FF1E0A038BF0790
:107F300051F7F601A7BEE89507B600FCFDCF97BE46
:107F4000E89526C08437B1F42ED02DD0F82E2BD052
:107F50003CD0F601EF2C8F010F5F1F4F84911BD097
:107F6000EA94F801C1F70894C11CD11CFA94CF0C13
:107F7000D11C0EC0853739F428D08EE10CD085E9AC
:107F80000AD08FE07ACF813511F488E018D01DD067
:107F900080E101D065CF982F8091C00085FFFCCF94
:107FA0009093C60008958091C00087FFFCCF809118
:107FB000C00084FD01C0A8958091C6000895E0E648
:107FC000F0E098E1908380830895EDDF803219F02E
:107FD00088E0F5DFFFCF84E1DECF1F93182FE3DFCA
:107FE0001150E9F7F2DF1F91089580E0E8DFEE27F6
:047FF000FF270994CA
:027FFE00040479
:0400000300007E007B
:00000001FF

Answer 1

You are correct that this high fuse byte of the Arduino Uno is 0xDE; I confirmed that by checking boards.txt.

That means that BOOTSZ is set to 11, which means the bootloader size is 256 words and starts at word 0x3F00 (byte address 0x7E00), as documented in the ATmega328P datasheet (Table 26-7). There is no contradiction.