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From:   Richard Hughes <hughsient@gmail.com>
Date:   Fri, 12 Nov 2021 10:09:14 +0000
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] firmware: export x86_64 platform flash bios region via sysfs
To:     Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc:     Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>,
        Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>,
        Hans-Gert Dahmen <hans-gert.dahmen@immu.ne>,
        Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com>,
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On Fri, 12 Nov 2021 at 06:52, Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> Why don't we just export these areas to userspace and let the decoding
> of them happen there?

Unless I'm missing something, the patch from Hans-Gert does just that:
exposing the IFD BIOS partition that encloses the various EFI file
volumes.

Richard.