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27.Dd October 25, 2018
28.Dt LIBEFIVAR 3
29.Os
30.Sh NAME
31.Nm libefivar
32.Nd EFI Non Volatile Variable Support
33.Sh SYNOPSIS
34.In efivar.h
35.Ft int
36.Fn efi_append_variable "efi_guid_t guid" "const char *name" "void *data" "size_t data_size" "uint32_t attributes"
37.Ft int
38.Fn efi_del_variable "efi_guid_t guid" "const char *name"
39.Ft int
40.Fn efi_get_variable "efi_guid_t guid" "const char *name" "void **data" "ssize_t *data_size" "uint32_t *attributes"
41.Ft int
42.Fn efi_get_variable_attributes "efi_guid_t guid" "const char *name" "uint32_t *attributes"
43.Ft int
44.Fn efi_get_variable_size "efi_guid_t guid" "const char *name" "size_t *size"
45.Ft int
46.Fn efi_get_next_variable_name "efi_guid_t **guid" "char **name"
47.Ft int
48.Fn efi_guid_to_name "efi_guid_t *guid" "char **name"
49.Ft int
50.Fn efi_guid_to_symbol "efi_guid_t *guid" "char **symbol"
51.Ft int
52.Fn efi_guid_to_str "const efi_guid_t *guid" "char **sp"
53.Ft int
54.Fn efi_name_to_guid "const char *name" "efi_guid_t *guid"
55.Ft int
56.Fn efi_set_variable "efi_guid_t guid" "const char *name" "void *data" "size_t data_size" "uint32_t attributes"
57.Ft int
58.Fn efi_str_to_guid "const char *s" "efi_guid_t *guid"
59.Ft int
60.Fn efi_variables_supported "void"
61.Sh DESCRIPTION
62The
63.Nm
64library implements access to EFI Variables via the EFI Runtime
65Services.
66All
67.Vt "char *"
68strings are converted to 16-bit UTF strings before passing
69them to EFI.
70.Pp
71.Fn efi_variables_supported
72returns non-zero if the current machine supports setting of EFI firmware
73variables and the kernel support for doing so is present.
74Otherwise zero is returned.
75.Pp
76.Fn efi_del_variable
77deletes the EFI variable selected by
78.Va guid
79and
80.Va name .
81.Pp
82The following functions have not been implemented yet:
83.Bl -dash -offset indent -compact
84.It
85.Fn efi_append_variable
86.It
87.Fn efi_get_next_variable_name
88.It
89.Fn efi_get_variable
90.It
91.Fn efi_get_variable_attributes
92.It
93.Fn efi_get_variable_size
94.It
95.Fn efi_guid_to_name
96.It
97.Fn efi_guid_to_str
98.It
99.Fn efi_guid_to_symbol
100.It
101.Fn efi_name_to_guid
102.It
103.Fn efi_set_variable
104.It
105.Fn efi_str_to_guid
106.El
107.Sh SEE ALSO
108.Xr efidev 4
109.Sh HISTORY
110The
111.Nm
112library first appeared in
113.Fx 12.0 .
114.Sh AUTHORS
115.An -nosplit
116This software was originally written by
117.An Warner Losh .
118.Sh BUGS
119No facilities exist to process the strings as native UTF.
120This is a limitation in the Linux
121.Nm
122library interface.
123