Method

FwupdPluginEfivarscreate_boot_entry_for_volume

since: 2.0.6

Declaration [src]

gboolean
fu_efivars_create_boot_entry_for_volume (
  FuEfivars* self,
  guint16 idx,
  FuVolume* volume,
  const gchar* name,
  const gchar* target,
  GError** error
)

Description [src]

Creates a BootXXXX variable for a given volume, name and target.

If target does not exist on the volume then a dummy file is created.

Available since: 2.0.6

Parameters

idx

Type: guint16

Boot index, typically 0x0001.

volume

Type: FuVolume

A FuVolume.

The data is owned by the caller of the method.
name

Type: const gchar*

A display name, e.g. “Fedora”.

The data is owned by the caller of the method.
The value is a NUL terminated UTF-8 string.
target

Type: const gchar*

An EFI binary, e.g. “shim.efi”.

The data is owned by the caller of the method.
The value is a NUL terminated UTF-8 string.
error

Type: GError **

The return location for a recoverable error.

The argument can be NULL.
If the return location is not NULL, then you must initialize it to a NULL GError*.
The argument will be left initialized to NULL by the method if there are no errors.
In case of error, the argument will be set to a newly allocated GError; the caller will take ownership of the data, and be responsible for freeing it.

Return value

Type: gboolean

TRUE on success.