From 8e4bff4cab0ddac6060645b0715210484d02ff40 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Yuval Adam <_@yuv.al>
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2017 08:25:59 +0000
Subject: Initial file dump from open source release

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+efivarfs - a (U)EFI variable filesystem
+
+The efivarfs filesystem was created to address the shortcomings of
+using entries in sysfs to maintain EFI variables. The old sysfs EFI
+variables code only supported variables of up to 1024 bytes. This
+limitation existed in version 0.99 of the EFI specification, but was
+removed before any full releases. Since variables can now be larger
+than a single page, sysfs isn't the best interface for this.
+
+Variables can be created, deleted and modified with the efivarfs
+filesystem.
+
+efivarfs is typically mounted like this,
+
+	mount -t efivarfs none /sys/firmware/efi/efivars
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