From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Timur Tabi Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/8] arm64: defconfig: enable EFI_VARS and EFI_CAPSULE_LOADER Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2017 15:58:07 -0500 Message-ID: References: <1492012980-11650-1-git-send-email-timur@codeaurora.org> <1492012980-11650-6-git-send-email-timur@codeaurora.org> <20170412161442.GB7153@leverpostej> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from smtp.codeaurora.org ([198.145.29.96]:53752 "EHLO smtp.codeaurora.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754675AbdDLU6N (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Apr 2017 16:58:13 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20170412161442.GB7153@leverpostej> Sender: linux-next-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: Mark Rutland , Robin Murphy Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, sfr@canb.auug.org.au, linux-next@vger.kernel.org, maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com, olof@lixom.net, Wei Xu , ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org, leif.lindholm@arm.com 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.