From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: timur@codeaurora.org (Timur Tabi) Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2017 15:58:07 -0500 Subject: [PATCH 5/8] arm64: defconfig: enable EFI_VARS and EFI_CAPSULE_LOADER In-Reply-To: <20170412161442.GB7153@leverpostej> References: <1492012980-11650-1-git-send-email-timur@codeaurora.org> <1492012980-11650-6-git-send-email-timur@codeaurora.org> <20170412161442.GB7153@leverpostej> Message-ID: To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On 04/12/2017 11:14 AM, Mark Rutland wrote: >>> > > Many ARM64 server systems boot via EFI, so enable support for some EFI >>> > > options to allow applications to interact with EFI. >>> > > >>> > > CONFIG_EFI_VARS enables sysfs support for reading and writing variables >> > >> > Isn't efivarfs preferred for that these days, or have I imagined that? >> > >> > Robin. > Ard, Leif? So my research suggests that efivarfs is a replacement for CONFIG_EFI_VARS. We may still have some older programs that use the sysfs entries, but I'm not sure. Regardless, I will drop EFI_VARS from v2 of the patset, and just set EFI_CAPSULE_LOADER. -- Qualcomm Datacenter Technologies, Inc. as an affiliate of Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. is a member of the Code Aurora Forum, a Linux Foundation Collaborative Project.