*grumble, accidental send*
On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 08:08:31PM +0000, Leif Lindholm wrote:
> > > > (I don't have an x86 EFI system available to poke around and answer
> > > > these for myself).
> > > >
> > > > I'm wondering if we ought to figure out how to load it automatically
> > > > independent of the pstore stuff, for all arches.
> > >
> > > I'd be happy for it not to be autoloaded, as long as it was consistent
> > > across architectures.
> >
> > I think (although I'm somewhat inferring some pieces) that the right
> > answer here is to have something (mountkernfs.sh/systemd/pixies) mount
> > efivarfs and to ignore the deprecated efivars thing on non-x86. The
> > pstore stuff should be considered a separate feature request in its own
> > right.
Well, that was the actual thing I asked for in this bug, so let's keep
the pstore aspect here.
> > I could clone this bug and retitle+reassign the other half into a bug to
> > handle the efi half, but TBH I think conflating the EFI variable access
> > from userspace requirement with enabling pstore in the kernel is just
> > going to end up causing confusion, so a separate report to get efivarfs
> > mounted would probably be best.
Fair point.
Coming up.
/
Leif
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