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Date:      Mon, 30 Jul 2018 13:59:23 -0400
From:      Shawn Webb <shawn.webb@hardenedbsd.org>
To:        Kyle Evans <kevans@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r336919 - head/sys/dev/efidev
Message-ID:  <20180730175923.vtha72pcvzilsspu@mutt-hbsd>
In-Reply-To: <201807301740.w6UHeRM0077138@repo.freebsd.org>
References:  <201807301740.w6UHeRM0077138@repo.freebsd.org>

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On Mon, Jul 30, 2018 at 05:40:27PM +0000, Kyle Evans wrote:
> Author: kevans
> Date: Mon Jul 30 17:40:27 2018
> New Revision: 336919
> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/336919
> 
> Log:
>   efirt: Add tunable to allow disabling EFI Runtime Services
>   
>   Leading up to enabling EFIRT in GENERIC, allow runtime services to be
>   disabled with a new tunable: efi.rt_disabled. This makes it so that EFIRT
>   can be disabled easily in case we run into some buggy UEFI implementation
>   and fail to boot.
>   
>   Discussed with:	imp, kib
>   MFC after:	1 week
> 
> Modified:
>   head/sys/dev/efidev/efirt.c
> 
> Modified: head/sys/dev/efidev/efirt.c
> ==============================================================================
> --- head/sys/dev/efidev/efirt.c	Mon Jul 30 17:03:15 2018	(r336918)
> +++ head/sys/dev/efidev/efirt.c	Mon Jul 30 17:40:27 2018	(r336919)
> @@ -133,7 +133,12 @@ efi_init(void)
>  	struct efi_md *map;
>  	caddr_t kmdp;
>  	size_t efisz;
> +	int rt_disabled;
>  
> +	rt_disabled = 0;
> +	TUNABLE_INT_FETCH("efi.rt_disabled", &rt_disabled);

Would it be a good idea to document this tunable in loader(8)?

Thanks,

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Shawn Webb
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