On 9/22/21 4:41 AM, FMDF wrote:

What is this for?

efivarfs on /sys/firmware/efi/efivars type efivarfs

why would the OS need to know anything about the UEFI boot loader once it is up and running?

Not from the boot loader, but the OS needs system information from the UEFI.

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