From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Mosberger Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 22:53:04 +0000 Subject: Re: [patch] efivars update for 2.6.1 Message-Id: <16389.51280.731508.513970@napali.hpl.hp.com> List-Id: References: <200401131824.i0DIOMcA031105@snoqualmie.dp.intel.com> <20040113191015.20415de3.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20040113191015.20415de3.akpm@osdl.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Andrew Morton Cc: Matt Tolentino , davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, matthew.e.tolentino@intel.com >>>>> On Tue, 13 Jan 2004 19:10:15 -0800, Andrew Morton said: >> Essentially, it converts efivars (i.e. Matt Domsch's driver that >> provides access to the EFI variable runtime services) to export >> variable information and systab info via sysfs. Andrew> I'd need confirmation from David M-T and if poss a quick Andrew> review from Greg K-H. Matt is the owner of efivars so if he is OK with it, that's fine with me. My only request is that if/when the patch is accepted that there is some documentation that makes it clear where one can can get an updated/matching efibootmgr from. --david