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SubjectRe: access efi variables
On Sat, 14 Sep, at 07:01:19PM, Arend van Spriel wrote:
> On 09/14/13 00:37, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> >On 09/13/2013 08:37 AM, Arend van Spriel wrote:
> >>I need to obtain a uefi variable so I went looking at the API in
> >>include/linux/efi.h. I found the following definition:
> >>
> >>But according to the specs the variable I need to obtain is 2k bytes.
> >>Should I expect trouble :-p
> >>
> >
> >efivarfs doesn't have those limitations.
>
> Thanks, Peter
>
> Looking into efivarfs it seems to use the functions that I looked at
> in efi.h so I guess I am misinterpreting the 1024 bytes limitation
> in the comment (either that or you are mistaken ;-) ). I need to
> access the variable from within a device driver so using efivarfs
> does not feel like the way to go here.

Look at how efivarfs_file_read() is implemented, e.g. using
efivar_entry_get(). In particular, note how it kmalloc()'s a buffer for
reading the variable data into, thereby avoiding any 1024-byte
limitation.

--
Matt Fleming, Intel Open Source Technology Center


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