1 menu "EFI (Extensible Firmware Interface) Support"
5 tristate "EFI Variable Support via sysfs"
9 If you say Y here, you are able to get EFI (Extensible Firmware
10 Interface) variable information via sysfs. You may read,
11 write, create, and destroy EFI variables through this interface.
13 Note that using this driver in concert with efibootmgr requires
14 at least test release version 0.5.0-test3 or later, which is
15 available from Matt Domsch's website located at:
16 <http://linux.dell.com/efibootmgr/testing/efibootmgr-0.5.0-test3.tar.gz>
18 Subsequent efibootmgr releases may be found at:
19 <http://linux.dell.com/efibootmgr>
21 config EFI_VARS_PSTORE
22 tristate "Register efivars backend for pstore"
23 depends on EFI_VARS && PSTORE
26 Say Y here to enable use efivars as a backend to pstore. This
27 will allow writing console messages, crash dumps, or anything
28 else supported by pstore to EFI variables.
30 config EFI_VARS_PSTORE_DEFAULT_DISABLE
31 bool "Disable using efivars as a pstore backend by default"
32 depends on EFI_VARS_PSTORE
35 Saying Y here will disable the use of efivars as a storage
36 backend for pstore by default. This setting can be overridden
37 using the efivars module's pstore_disable parameter.