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

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Message-ID: <4EEA1664.1050402@zytor.com>
Date:	Thu, 15 Dec 2011 07:46:44 -0800
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...f.ucam.org>
CC:	Mike Waychison <mikew@...gle.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	x86@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] EFI: Add support for variables longer than 1024 bytes

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.
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