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From: Matt Fleming <matt-mF/unelCI9GS6iBeEJttW/XRex20P6io@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] efi: Make efivarfs entries immutable by default.
Date: Wed, 3 Feb 2016 14:56:21 +0000
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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.