On 3/27/20 8:44 PM, Simon Glass wrote:
Hi Heinrich,

On Thu, 26 Mar 2020 at 23:28, Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.g...@gmx.de> wrote:

Up to UEFI variable where stored in U-Boot environment variables. Saving

That doesn't read right to me.

This should be:

Up to now UEFI variable were stored in U-Boot environment variables


UEFI variables was not possible without saving the U-Boot environment
variables.

With this patch series file ubootefi.var in the EFI system partition is
used for saving UEFI variables.

Furthermore the UEFI variables are exposed at runtime and are writable at
runtime.

The missing piece is transferring the variable changed at runtime back to
the firmware. I will evaluate the following options:

* using a fixed memory address: we could read the memory area after a
   reboot
* using a systemd service which is called before the system goes down

Many of the CCs are due to the changes in disk/part_efi.c. Here the logic
to detect the EFI system partition is introduced (patch 04/16).

Heinrich Schuchardt (16):
   cmd: efidebug: fix int to pointer cast
   efi_loader: only reserve memory if fdt node enabled
   efi_loader: eliminate EFI_CALL() for variable access
   part: detect EFI system partition
   efi_loader: identify EFI system partition
   efi_loader: keep attributes in efi_set_variable_int()
   efi_loader: export initialization state
   efi_loader: change setup sequence
   efi_loader: imply FAT, FAT_WRITE
   efi_loader: UEFI variable persistence
   efi_loader: export efi_convert_pointer()
   efi_loader: optional pointer for ConvertPointer
   efi_loader: memory buffer for variables
   efi_loader: use memory based variable storage
   efi_loader: enable UEFI variables at runtime
   efi_selftest: adjust runtime test for variables

  cmd/bootefi.c                                 |   3 +-
  cmd/efidebug.c                                |  71 +-
  cmd/nvedit_efi.c                              |  18 +-
  disk/part_dos.c                               |  10 +-
  disk/part_efi.c                               |  12 +-
  include/efi_api.h                             |   2 +
  include/efi_loader.h                          |  22 +
  include/efi_variable.h                        |  52 ++
  include/part.h                                |  11 +-
  lib/efi_loader/Kconfig                        |  10 +
  lib/efi_loader/Makefile                       |   2 +
  lib/efi_loader/efi_bootmgr.c                  |  20 +-
  lib/efi_loader/efi_disk.c                     |  20 +
  lib/efi_loader/efi_runtime.c                  |  20 +-
  lib/efi_loader/efi_setup.c                    |  54 +-
  lib/efi_loader/efi_variable.c                 | 635 ++++++------------
  lib/efi_loader/efi_variables_file.c           | 235 +++++++
  lib/efi_loader/efi_variables_mem.c            | 324 +++++++++
  .../efi_selftest_variables_runtime.c          |  47 +-
  19 files changed, 1037 insertions(+), 531 deletions(-)
  create mode 100644 include/efi_variable.h
  create mode 100644 lib/efi_loader/efi_variables_file.c
  create mode 100644 lib/efi_loader/efi_variables_mem.c

Can you use 'vars' instead of variables as these filenames are too long.

Sure

Regards

Heinrich

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