[PATCH 1/2] lib: fwts_uefi: add the function to check the efivars interface existence

Matt Fleming matt at console-pimps.org
Fri May 17 12:13:54 UTC 2013


On Fri, 17 May, at 01:04:39PM, Colin Ian King wrote:
> Matt, so is it the case that while the old sysfs interface valid, it
> should probably be avoided?

Yeah, you should prefer efivarfs over the old sysfs interface because of
that 1024-byte limitation. I do expect the sysfs interface to hang
around for quite a while, however, because things like efibootmgr use
it.

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Matt Fleming, Intel Open Source Technology Center



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