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Flavio Suligoi
2dcc51b3fe docs: filesystems: add info about efivars content
When an EFI variable is reading from:

/sys/firmware/efi/efivars

(for example using "hexdump"), the first 4 bytes of the
output are not the real EFI variable data, but the variable
attributes (in little-endian format).

Signed-off-by: Flavio Suligoi <f.suligoi@asem.it>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200519084128.12756-1-f.suligoi@asem.it
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2020-05-25 18:59:59 -06:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab
06dedb45b7 docs: filesystems: convert efivarfs.txt to ReST
Trivial changes:

- Add a SPDX header;
- Adjust document title;
- Mark a literal block as such;
- Add it to filesystems/index.rst.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/215691d747055c4ccb038ec7d78d8d1fe87fe2c0.1581955849.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2020-03-02 14:02:57 -07:00
Renamed from Documentation/filesystems/efivarfs.txt (Browse further)