From: Matt Fleming <matt-mF/unelCI9GS6iBeEJttW/XRex20P6io@public.gmane.org>
To: Leif Lindholm <leif.lindholm-QSEj5FYQhm4dnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org>
Cc: Steve McIntyre <steve-nt0JYOx6u4DQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>,
Peter Jones <pjones-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>,
linux-efi-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] efi: Make efivarfs entries immutable by default.
Date: Wed, 3 Feb 2016 14:56:21 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160203145621.GI2597@codeblueprint.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160203145005.GH10351-t77nlHhSwNqAroYi2ySoxKxOck334EZe@public.gmane.org>
On Wed, 03 Feb, at 02:50:05PM, Leif Lindholm wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 03, 2016 at 02:20:04PM +0000, Steve McIntyre wrote:
> > Although if we're at the stage of doing things this wat then is there
> > much to be gained by having a filesystem interface in the first place?
>
> These systems would be manually brickable regardless of what interface
> you implemented, or under which operating system. Probably even from
> the UEFI Shell.
Right, and the old efivar sysfs code has a 1024-byte limit on the size
of data, which is impractical.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-02-03 14:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-02-03 13:02 [PATCH 1/5] Add ucs2 -> utf8 helper functions Peter Jones
[not found] ` <1454504567-2826-1-git-send-email-pjones-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2016-02-03 13:02 ` [PATCH 2/5] efi: use ucs2_as_utf8 in efivarfs instead of open coding a bad version Peter Jones
[not found] ` <1454504567-2826-2-git-send-email-pjones-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2016-02-03 16:42 ` Matt Fleming
[not found] ` <20160203164245.GA15385-mF/unelCI9GS6iBeEJttW/XRex20P6io@public.gmane.org>
2016-02-03 16:55 ` [PATCH] efi: use ucs2_as_utf8 in efivarfs instead of open coding a bad version (v2) Peter Jones
2016-02-03 13:02 ` [PATCH 3/5] efi: do variable name validation tests in utf8 Peter Jones
2016-02-03 13:02 ` [PATCH 4/5] efi: make our variable validation list include the guid Peter Jones
2016-02-03 13:02 ` [PATCH 5/5] efi: Make efivarfs entries immutable by default Peter Jones
[not found] ` <1454504567-2826-5-git-send-email-pjones-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2016-02-03 14:13 ` Matt Fleming
[not found] ` <20160203141354.GH2597-mF/unelCI9GS6iBeEJttW/XRex20P6io@public.gmane.org>
2016-02-03 14:20 ` Steve McIntyre
[not found] ` <20160203141959.GA3319-nt0JYOx6u4DQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2016-02-03 14:50 ` Leif Lindholm
[not found] ` <20160203145005.GH10351-t77nlHhSwNqAroYi2ySoxKxOck334EZe@public.gmane.org>
2016-02-03 14:56 ` Matt Fleming [this message]
[not found] ` <20160203145621.GI2597-mF/unelCI9GS6iBeEJttW/XRex20P6io@public.gmane.org>
2016-02-03 15:00 ` Steve McIntyre
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2016-02-12 11:27 [GIT PULL 0/5] EFI urgent fixes Matt Fleming
2016-02-12 11:27 ` [PATCH 5/5] efi: Make efivarfs entries immutable by default Matt Fleming
[not found] ` <1455276432-9931-6-git-send-email-matt-mF/unelCI9GS6iBeEJttW/XRex20P6io@public.gmane.org>
2016-02-15 10:50 ` Matt Fleming
2016-02-15 10:50 ` Matt Fleming
2016-02-02 22:33 Preventing "rm -rf /sys/firmware/efi/efivars/" from damage Peter Jones
[not found] ` <1454452386-27709-1-git-send-email-pjones-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2016-02-02 22:33 ` [PATCH 5/5] efi: Make efivarfs entries immutable by default Peter Jones
[not found] ` <1454452386-27709-6-git-send-email-pjones-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2016-02-03 13:16 ` Matt Fleming
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