Re: [PATCH 3/4] EFI: Add support for variables longer than 1024bytes

[Matthew Garrett]

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.

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