[PATCH] fs: efivarfs: allow creating variables under any GUID in loader mode

[Sascha Hauer]

On Wed, 26 Aug 2026 11:37:13 +0200, Ahmad Fatoum wrote:
> efivars_create() refuses to create variables outside the barebox vendor
> GUID. That dates from when barebox was only an EFI payload: on somebody
> else's firmware, whose NVRAM holds the platform's own state, a shell that
> can create Boot#### or BootOrder under the global GUID is a liability,
> and the payload only ever needs barebox-env-<guid> anyway.
> 
> The EFI loader took the same efivarfs over unchanged, where the argument
> does not hold. The store is barebox' own in-memory buffer backed by a
> file it writes itself, and everything the loader starts - the UEFI
> Shell, GRUB, the OS - can already create variables under any GUID. Only
> the barebox shell was held back:
> 
> [...]

Applied, thanks!

[1/1] fs: efivarfs: allow creating variables under any GUID in loader mode
      https://git.pengutronix.de/cgit/barebox/commit/?id=97f6cf9c5acb (link may not be stable)

Best regards,
-- 
Sascha Hauer <s.hauer at pengutronix.de>