[PATCH 00/11] Add compression support to pstore

Tony Luck tony.luck at gmail.com
Wed Aug 7 15:35:19 EST 2013


On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 10:13 PM, Aruna Balakrishnaiah
<aruna at linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> How is it with erst and efivars?

ERST is at the whim of the BIOS writer (the ACPI standard doesn't provide any
suggestions on record sizes).  My systems support ~6K record size.

efivars has, IIRC, a 1k limit coded in the Linux back end.

-Tony


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