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Date:      Mon, 1 Mar 2021 19:00:28 GMT
From:      Warner Losh <imp@FreeBSD.org>
To:        src-committers@FreeBSD.org, dev-commits-src-all@FreeBSD.org, dev-commits-src-branches@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   git: 3e95150e8cb3 - releng/13.0 - Remove incorrect statement about EFI environment variables being unsupported.
Message-ID:  <202103011900.121J0SDD030830@gitrepo.freebsd.org>

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The branch releng/13.0 has been updated by imp:

URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/src/commit/?id=3e95150e8cb38795e6e3d06924e4d6c8c6c94cb9

commit 3e95150e8cb38795e6e3d06924e4d6c8c6c94cb9
Author:     Warner Losh <imp@FreeBSD.org>
AuthorDate: 2021-02-22 20:19:21 +0000
Commit:     Warner Losh <imp@FreeBSD.org>
CommitDate: 2021-03-01 18:59:34 +0000

    Remove incorrect statement about EFI environment variables being unsupported.
    
    Our uefi support has included environment variable support for several years
    now. Remove the bogus blanket statement saying we don't support them.
    
    MFC After: 3 days
    Approved by: re@ (gjb)
    (cherry picked from commit ab77cc9e7bf6d0c2d862dfd514539b81ae248dfd)
    (cherry picked from commit 78050d4966c5a9c8e953cab2a286450238d51e4f)
---
 share/man/man8/uefi.8 | 6 +-----
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/share/man/man8/uefi.8 b/share/man/man8/uefi.8
index 4224af835738..05c74caa6c20 100644
--- a/share/man/man8/uefi.8
+++ b/share/man/man8/uefi.8
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
 .\"
 .\" $FreeBSD$
 .\"
-.Dd May 9, 2020
+.Dd February 22, 2021
 .Dt UEFI 8
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -143,7 +143,3 @@ boot support for amd64 first appeared in
 .Fx 10.1
 and for arm64 in
 .Fx 11.0 .
-.Sh CAVEATS
-EFI environment variables are not supported by
-.Xr loader 8
-or the kernel.



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