Commit e913ca7d authored by Matt Fleming's avatar Matt Fleming

efivarfs: Add documentation for the EFI variable filesystem

Signed-off-by: default avatarMatt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
parent 605e70c7
......@@ -38,6 +38,8 @@ dnotify_test.c
- example program for dnotify
ecryptfs.txt
- docs on eCryptfs: stacked cryptographic filesystem for Linux.
efivarfs.txt
- info for the efivarfs filesystem.
exofs.txt
- info, usage, mount options, design about EXOFS.
ext2.txt
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efivarfs - a (U)EFI variable filesystem
The efivarfs filesystem was created to address the shortcomings of
using entries in sysfs to maintain EFI variables. The old sysfs EFI
variables code only supported variables of up to 1024 bytes. This
limitation existed in version 0.99 of the EFI specification, but was
removed before any full releases. Since variables can now be larger
than a single page, sysfs isn't the best interface for this.
Variables can be created, deleted and modified with the efivarfs
filesystem.
efivarfs is typically mounted like this,
mount -t efivarfs none /sys/firmware/efi/efivars
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