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Tip revision: 272b98c6455f00884f0350f775c5342358ebb73f authored by Linus Torvalds on 16 September 2013, 20:17:51 UTC
Linux 3.12-rc1
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efivarfs.txt

efivarfs - a (U)EFI variable filesystem

The efivarfs filesystem was created to address the shortcomings of
using entries in sysfs to maintain EFI variables. The old sysfs EFI
variables code only supported variables of up to 1024 bytes. This
limitation existed in version 0.99 of the EFI specification, but was
removed before any full releases. Since variables can now be larger
than a single page, sysfs isn't the best interface for this.

Variables can be created, deleted and modified with the efivarfs
filesystem.

efivarfs is typically mounted like this,

	mount -t efivarfs none /sys/firmware/efi/efivars
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