From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Mike Waychison <mikew@google.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] EFI: Add support for variables longer than 1024 bytes
Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2011 15:44:56 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111215154456.GB10486@srcf.ucam.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4EE92A0C.2040207@zytor.com>
On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 02:58:20PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> On 12/14/2011 02:57 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > Yes, but we'd break existing userspace.
> >
>
> Obviously. However, you indicated above that that might be acceptable
> -- how many things use this ABI to set variables?
Ah, sorry - my suggestion had been to add an additional interface, not
just replace the existing one. efibootmgr is the only userland I know of
that interacts directly, but it's entirely possible that there are
others - I'd guess Google have something.
--
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-12-15 15:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-12-14 21:06 Update UEFI variable support Matthew Garrett
2011-12-14 21:06 ` [PATCH 1/4] uefi: Populate runtime_version Matthew Garrett
2011-12-14 21:06 ` [PATCH 2/4] efi: Only create sysfs entries while booting or running Matthew Garrett
2011-12-14 21:32 ` Mike Waychison
2011-12-14 21:06 ` [PATCH 3/4] EFI: Add support for variables longer than 1024 bytes Matthew Garrett
2011-12-14 22:14 ` Mike Waychison
2011-12-14 22:39 ` Matthew Garrett
2011-12-14 22:44 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-12-14 22:57 ` Matthew Garrett
2011-12-14 22:58 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-12-15 15:44 ` Matthew Garrett [this message]
2011-12-14 22:57 ` Mike Waychison
2011-12-14 23:00 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-12-14 23:06 ` Mike Waychison
2011-12-14 23:22 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-12-14 23:24 ` Mike Waychison
2011-12-15 15:43 ` Matthew Garrett
2011-12-15 15:46 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-12-15 15:48 ` Matthew Garrett
2011-12-14 21:06 ` [PATCH 4/4] EFI: Add support for QueryVariableInfo() call Matthew Garrett
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