Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 15 Dec 2011 15:44:56 +0000 | From | Matthew Garrett <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 3/4] EFI: Add support for variables longer than 1024 bytes |
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On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 02:58:20PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > On 12/14/2011 02:57 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote: > > Yes, but we'd break existing userspace. > > > > Obviously. However, you indicated above that that might be acceptable > -- how many things use this ABI to set variables?
Ah, sorry - my suggestion had been to add an additional interface, not just replace the existing one. efibootmgr is the only userland I know of that interacts directly, but it's entirely possible that there are others - I'd guess Google have something.
-- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
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