efivars

Ruben Safir ruben at mrbrklyn.com
Wed Sep 22 22:02:43 EDT 2021


On 9/22/21 1:04 PM, Valdis Klētnieks wrote:
> You might want to read Documentation/x86/boot.rst and think about what  the OS
> is expecting to get passed from the boot loader, and then think about how you
> would deal with the situation if that information wasn't passed along.


Link?

FWIW, it doesn't need anything from the boot loader.  The installed OS
is capable of IDing hardware and running.

I've read through the entire documantation for UEFI, as boring as that
is never saw anyiong about passing info to the OS.

I did a sumation of this at one point:

http://www.nylxs.com/docs/grad_school/uefi/page1.html



-- 
So many immigrant groups have swept through our town
that Brooklyn, like Atlantis, reaches mythological
proportions in the mind of the world - RI Safir 1998
http://www.mrbrklyn.com
DRM is THEFT - We are the STAKEHOLDERS - RI Safir 2002

http://www.nylxs.com - Leadership Development in Free Software
http://www.brooklyn-living.com

Being so tracked is for FARM ANIMALS and extermination camps,
but incompatible with living as a free human being. -RI Safir 2013



More information about the Kernelnewbies mailing list