Re: efi: new 'connectefi' command

[Glenn Washburn]

On Tue, 15 Feb 2022 14:05:20 +0100
Renaud Métrich <rmetrich@redhat.com> wrote:

> This set of patches fixes a memory leak in 'lsefi' command and
> introduces a new 'connectefi pciroot|scsi' command which recursively
> connects the corresponding EFI handles.

I think both of these patches would be great to get in before the
upcoming feature freeze. Is there interest in updating them to get them
worthy of inclusion?

Glenn

> This is required on VMWare with efi.quickBoot enabled when chainloading
> to grub on the harddisk from a network boot, otherwise none of the hard
> disks are found (and sometimes the hard disk is found but not the
> underneath partitions).
> 
> This is closely related to the following patchset:
> [PATCH v3 1/2] search: fixed bug stopping iteration when --no-floppy is used
> [PATCH v3 2/2] search: new --efidisk-only option on EFI systems
> 
> 
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