Bug 1003076

Summary:	efibootmgr should support the new efivarfs filesystem and use it by default
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Keshav Amburay <the.ridikulus.rat>
Component:	efibootmgr	Assignee:	Peter Jones <pjones>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	22	CC:	awilliam, jordan_hargrave, pjones, surya_prabhakar, the.ridikulus.rat
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Description Keshav Amburay 2013-08-30 17:34:16 UTC

Description of problem:
efibootmgr currently does not support the efivarfs (/sys/firmware/efi/efivars) filesystem (replacement for the old sysfs efivars /sys/firmware/efi/vars interface) that is present in kernel >=3.8 . This support should be added to efibootmgr and it should use efivarfs by default and only fallback to old sysfs efivars interface if the former is not available.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
efibootmgr 0.6.0

Related Links:
http://blog.fpmurphy.com/2012/12/efivars-and-efivarfs.html
https://github.com/fpmurphy/Various/tree/master/efibootmgr-0.6.0
https://github.com/fpmurphy/Various/issues/1
https://github.com/vathpela/efivar

Comment 1 Keshav Amburay 2013-09-15 05:51:45 UTC

https://github.com/vathpela/efibootmgr/tree/libefivars (via https://github.com/vathpela/efivar library) supports efivarfs.

Comment 2 Fedora Admin XMLRPC Client 2013-10-09 20:33:31 UTC

This package has changed ownership in the Fedora Package Database.  Reassigning to the new owner of this component.

Comment 3 Adam Williamson 2014-02-03 19:34:26 UTC

I believe https://github.com/vathpela/efibootmgr/commit/80546398831ce56e1f513c4bbab3e5231e9f0a3b basically fixes this upstream, so we get this fixed for free when we go to 0.6.1 / 0.7.

Comment 4 Peter Jones 2014-10-20 19:23:27 UTC

This was fixed quite some time in the past.

Comment 5 Adam Williamson 2014-10-21 00:03:10 UTC

well, if that's the case, can we just close it, or is there some purpose served by leaving it open?

Comment 6 Jaroslav Reznik 2015-03-03 17:09:57 UTC

This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 22 development cycle.
Changing version to '22'.

More information and reason for this action is here:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Program_Management/HouseKeeping/Fedora22