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

From: Matthew Garrett
Date: Thu Dec 15 2011 - 10:48:51 EST


On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 07:46:44AM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> 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.

Yeah. I'll start thinking about the most sensible filesystem interface
for this.

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