From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa-YMNOUZJC4hwAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: access efi variables
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2013 15:37:15 -0700
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On 09/13/2013 08:37 AM, Arend van Spriel wrote:
> I need to obtain a uefi variable so I went looking at the API in
> include/linux/efi.h. I found the following definition:
> 
> But according to the specs the variable I need to obtain is 2k bytes.
> Should I expect trouble :-p
> 

efivarfs doesn't have those limitations.

	-hpa