From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
Cc: Mike Waychison <mikew@google.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] EFI: Add support for variables longer than 1024 bytes
Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2011 07:46:44 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4EEA1664.1050402@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111215154356.GA10486@srcf.ucam.org>
On 12/15/2011 07:43 AM, Matthew Garrett wrote:
>
> We'll pretty much definitely want to be able to read values> 1024 once
> people start shoving keys in there. The PAGE_SIZE limit is one that I'd
> forgotten about, though.
>
The jump from 1024 to 4096 seems to not be very long... hence I think we
may need a different approach.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-12-15 15:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-12-14 21:06 Update UEFI variable support Matthew Garrett
2011-12-14 21:06 ` [PATCH 1/4] uefi: Populate runtime_version Matthew Garrett
2011-12-14 21:06 ` [PATCH 2/4] efi: Only create sysfs entries while booting or running Matthew Garrett
2011-12-14 21:32 ` Mike Waychison
2011-12-14 21:06 ` [PATCH 3/4] EFI: Add support for variables longer than 1024 bytes Matthew Garrett
2011-12-14 22:14 ` Mike Waychison
2011-12-14 22:39 ` Matthew Garrett
2011-12-14 22:44 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-12-14 22:57 ` Matthew Garrett
2011-12-14 22:58 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-12-15 15:44 ` Matthew Garrett
2011-12-14 22:57 ` Mike Waychison
2011-12-14 23:00 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-12-14 23:06 ` Mike Waychison
2011-12-14 23:22 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-12-14 23:24 ` Mike Waychison
2011-12-15 15:43 ` Matthew Garrett
2011-12-15 15:46 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2011-12-15 15:48 ` Matthew Garrett
2011-12-14 21:06 ` [PATCH 4/4] EFI: Add support for QueryVariableInfo() call Matthew Garrett
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