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 15:48:50 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111215154850.GA10582@srcf.ucam.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4EEA1664.1050402@zytor.com>
On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 07:46:44AM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> On 12/15/2011 07:43 AM, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> >
> >We'll pretty much definitely want to be able to read values> 1024 once
> >people start shoving keys in there. The PAGE_SIZE limit is one that I'd
> >forgotten about, though.
> >
>
> The jump from 1024 to 4096 seems to not be very long... hence I
> think we may need a different approach.
Yeah. I'll start thinking about the most sensible filesystem interface
for this.
--
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-12-15 15:48 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
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 [this message]
2011-12-14 21:06 ` [PATCH 4/4] EFI: Add support for QueryVariableInfo() call Matthew Garrett
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