Date: Thu, 25 May 2017 01:43:39 +0000 (UTC) From: Glen Barber <gjb@FreeBSD.org> To: src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-stable@freebsd.org, svn-src-stable-11@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r318852 - stable/11/usr.sbin/efivar Message-ID: <201705250143.v4P1hdtq037910@repo.freebsd.org>
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Author: gjb Date: Thu May 25 01:43:39 2017 New Revision: 318852 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/318852 Log: MFC r318599, r318643: r318599 (bjk): Updates for efivar.8 Fix spelling, appease igor and mandoc -Tlint, and adopt the language style to be more consistent with our corpus. r318643: Correct the "first appeared in" version for efivar(8). Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation Modified: stable/11/usr.sbin/efivar/efivar.8 Directory Properties: stable/11/ (props changed) Modified: stable/11/usr.sbin/efivar/efivar.8 ============================================================================== --- stable/11/usr.sbin/efivar/efivar.8 Thu May 25 01:43:28 2017 (r318851) +++ stable/11/usr.sbin/efivar/efivar.8 Thu May 25 01:43:39 2017 (r318852) @@ -24,12 +24,12 @@ .\" .\" $FreeBSD$ .\" -.Dd March 4, 2017 +.Dd May 22, 2017 .Dt EFIVAR 8 .Os .Sh NAME .Nm efivar -.Nd UEFI environemnt variable interaction +.Nd UEFI environment variable interaction .Sh SYNOPSIS .Nm .Op Fl abdDHlLNpRtw @@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ This program manages .Pq UEFI environment variables. UEFI variables have three part: A namespace, a name and a value. -The namespace is a GUID that's self assigned by the group defining the +The namespace is a GUID that is self assigned by the group defining the variables. The name is a Unicode name for the variable. The value is binary data. @@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ The following options are available: Specify the name of the variable to operate on. The .Ar name -argument is the GUID of variable, followed by a dash, followed by the +argument is the GUID of the variable, followed by a dash, followed by the UEFI variable name. The GUID may be in numeric format, or may be one of the well known symbolic name (see @@ -86,19 +86,19 @@ This flag implies unless the .Fl -append flag is given. -This is not well understood and currently unimplemented. +This behavior is not well understood and is currently unimplemented. .It Fl a Fl -append Append the specified value to the UEFI variable rather than replacing -it.p +it. .It Fl t Ar attr Fl -attributes Ar attr -Specify, in user hostile hexidecimal, the attributes for this +Specify, in hexadecimal, the attributes for this variable. See section 7.2 (GetVariable subsection, Related Definitions) of the UEFI Specification for hex values to use. .It Fl A Fl -ascii Display the variable data as modified ascii: All printable characters are printed, while unprintable characters are rendered as a two-digit -hexadecimal number preceeded by a % character. +hexadecimal number preceded by a % character. .It Fl b Fl -binary Display the variable data as binary data. Usually will be used with the @@ -155,31 +155,29 @@ can be used to specify simple strings. Display the .Ar name environment variable. +.El .Sh COMPATIBILITY The .Nm -program is intended to be compatible (strict superset) with a progam -of the same name included in the Red Hat libefivar package. -.Pp -Except the +program is intended to be compatible (strict superset) with a program +of the same name included in the Red Hat libefivar package, +but the .Fl d and .Fl -print-decimal -flags are not implmenented and never will be. +flags are not implemented and never will be. +.Pp The .Fl d -flag is a short-hand for +flag is short for .Fl -device-path . .Sh SEE ALSO Appendix A of the UEFI specification has the format for GUIDs. All GUIDs .Dq Globally Unique Identifiers have the format described in RFC 4122. -.El -.Pp -.Xr efivar 8 .Sh HISTORY The .Nm utility first appeared in -.Fx 12.0 . +.Fx 11.1 .
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