Re: [RFC 11/14] efi_loader: variable: export variables table for runtime access

2020-03-19 Thread Ilias Apalodimas
Akashi-san, On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 10:53:45AM +0900, AKASHI Takahiro wrote: > On Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 08:37:47AM +0100, Heinrich Schuchardt wrote: > > On 3/17/20 3:12 AM, AKASHI Takahiro wrote: > > > There are platforms on which OS's won't be able to access UEFI variables > > > at runtime (i.e.

Re: [RFC 11/14] efi_loader: variable: export variables table for runtime access

2020-03-18 Thread Sughosh Ganu
On Tue, 17 Mar 2020 at 07:42, AKASHI Takahiro wrote: > There are platforms on which OS's won't be able to access UEFI variables > at runtime (i.e. after ExitBootServices). > With this patch, all the UEFI variables are exported as a configuration > table so as to enable retrieving variables'

Re: [RFC 11/14] efi_loader: variable: export variables table for runtime access

2020-03-17 Thread AKASHI Takahiro
On Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 08:37:47AM +0100, Heinrich Schuchardt wrote: > On 3/17/20 3:12 AM, AKASHI Takahiro wrote: > > There are platforms on which OS's won't be able to access UEFI variables > > at runtime (i.e. after ExitBootServices). > > With this patch, all the UEFI variables are exported as a

Re: [RFC 11/14] efi_loader: variable: export variables table for runtime access

2020-03-17 Thread Heinrich Schuchardt
On 3/17/20 3:12 AM, AKASHI Takahiro wrote: There are platforms on which OS's won't be able to access UEFI variables at runtime (i.e. after ExitBootServices). With this patch, all the UEFI variables are exported as a configuration table so as to enable retrieving variables' values from the table,

[RFC 11/14] efi_loader: variable: export variables table for runtime access

2020-03-16 Thread AKASHI Takahiro
There are platforms on which OS's won't be able to access UEFI variables at runtime (i.e. after ExitBootServices). With this patch, all the UEFI variables are exported as a configuration table so as to enable retrieving variables' values from the table, and later modifying them via capsule-on-disk