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Oliver Steffen
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Add a new module named bli. It implements a small but quite useful part of the Boot Loader Interface [0]. This interface uses EFI variables for communication between the boot loader and the operating system. When loaded, this module sets two EFI variables under the vendor GUID 4a67b082-0a4c-41cf-b6c7-440b29bb8c4f: - LoaderInfo: contains GRUB + <version number>. This allows the running operating system to identify the boot loader used during boot. - LoaderDevicePartUUID: contains the partition UUID of the EFI System Partition (ESP). This is used by systemd-gpt-auto-generator [1] to find the root partitions (and others too), via partition type IDs [2]. This module is available on EFI platforms only. The bli module relies on the part_gpt module which has to be loaded beforehand to make the GPT partitions discoverable. Update the documentation, add a new chapter "Modules" and describe the bli module there. [0] https://systemd.io/BOOT_LOADER_INTERFACE/ [1] https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd-gpt-auto-generator.html [2] https://uapi-group.org/specifications/specs/discoverable_partitions_specification/ Signed-off-by: Oliver Steffen <osteffen@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com>