On Thu, 2026-07-23 at 14:58 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > On Thu, Jul 23, 2026 at 10:46:59AM -0300, Chris Hofstaedtler wrote: > > * Christopher Obbard <[email protected]> [260722 06:13]: > > > Source: efivar > > > Version: 39-2 > > > Severity: wishlist > > > X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected], [email protected] > > > > > > Dear Maintainer, > > > > > > I would like to upload and maintain a backport of efivar for > > > trixie-backports. > > > > > > efivar 39-2 contains a patch backported from upstream[0] to enable > > > persistent > > > EFI variable storage on the ESP. This is needed on platform which lack > > > dedicated firmware-managed EFI variable storage. See Bug#1102494[1] for > > > more information. This backport is needed to enable the persistent EFI > > > variable storage on Qualcomm platforms. > > > > This sounds like something that we (as a distro) might want fixed in trixie, > > not just trixie-backports. Would it be worthwhile suggesting this as an > > update for the next trixie point release? > > Nod, that's not a bad idea. > > Christopher: would you be happy with that?
Hey Steve, Chris, Just FYI, I managed to make some time to prepare a backport for trixie && submitted a trixie-pu bug describing the reasoning: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1143444 Please reply to the bug if I missed anything or there's anything you'd like to clarify. Cheers! Christopher Obbard
