efivars

Ruben Safir ruben at mrbrklyn.com
Wed Sep 22 11:58:55 EDT 2021


On 9/22/21 2:35 AM, Greg KH wrote:
> Because there are lots of needed system information that the OS, and
> userspace, needs to get from UEFI after the system has booted.

OS's shouldn't need anything from a boot loader.  That ties the OS to
the bootloader completely without need.

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