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

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Message-ID: <20111215154850.GA10582@srcf.ucam.org>
Date:	Thu, 15 Dec 2011 15:48:50 +0000
From:	Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...f.ucam.org>
To:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
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 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.

-- 
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@...f.ucam.org
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