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Subject: Re: EFI Variables
To: Emmanuel Vadot <manu@bidouilliste.com>,
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From: Andriy Gapon <avg@FreeBSD.org>
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On 27/10/2015 20:24, Emmanuel Vadot wrote:
>  Is any of you guys uses efivars for something not boot-releated ?
>  I'm interested in any usage of efi variables.

I am not using EFI yet, but I am going to and I would like to use EFI's built-in
mechanism for the nextboot-ish kind of things (BootOrder, BootNext variables).

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Andriy Gapon