Dumping UEFI variables

UEFI variables in Linux can be found in /sys/firmware/efi/vars on UEFI firmware based machine, however, the raw variable data is in a binary format and hence not in a human readable form.   The Ubuntu Natty firmware test suite contains the uefidump tool to extract and decode the binary data into a more human readable form.

To run, use:

sudo fwts uefidump -

and you will see something similar to the following:

Name: AuthVarKeyDatabase.
  GUID: aaf32c78-947b-439a-a180-2e144ec37792
  Attr: 0x17 (NonVolatile,BootServ,RunTime).
  Size: 1 bytes of data.
  Data: 0000: 00                                               .

Name: Boot0000.
  GUID: 8be4df61-93ca-11d2-aa0d-00e098032b8c
  Attr: 0x7 (NonVolatile,BootServ,RunTime).
  Active: Yes
  Info: Primary Master Harddisk
  Path: \BIOS(2,0,Primary Master Harddisk).

Name: Boot0001.
  GUID: 8be4df61-93ca-11d2-aa0d-00e098032b8c
  Attr: 0x7 (NonVolatile,BootServ,RunTime).
  Active: Yes
  Info: EFI Internal Shell
  Path: \Unknown-MEDIA-DEV-PATH(0x7)\Unknown-MEDIA-DEV-PATH(0x6).

Name: Boot0003.
  GUID: 8be4df61-93ca-11d2-aa0d-00e098032b8c
  Attr: 0x7 (NonVolatile,BootServ,RunTime).
  Active: Yes
  Info: ubuntu
  Path: \HARDDRIVE(1,22,9897,0f52a6e132775546,ab,f6)\FILE('\EFI\ubuntu\grubx64.efi').

Name: Boot0004.
  GUID: 8be4df61-93ca-11d2-aa0d-00e098032b8c
  Attr: 0x7 (NonVolatile,BootServ,RunTime).
  Active: Yes
  Info: EFI DVD/CDROM
  Path: \ACPI(0xa0341d0,0x0)\PCI(0x2,0x1f)\ATAPI(0x0,0x1,0x0).

Name: BootOptionSupport.
  GUID: 8be4df61-93ca-11d2-aa0d-00e098032b8c
  Attr: 0x6 (BootServ,RunTime).
  BootOptionSupport: 0x0303.

Name: BootOrder.
  GUID: 8be4df61-93ca-11d2-aa0d-00e098032b8c
  Attr: 0x7 (NonVolatile,BootServ,RunTime).
  Boot Order: 0x0003,0x0000,0x0001,0x0004,0x0005,0x0006.

Name: ConIn.
  GUID: 8be4df61-93ca-11d2-aa0d-00e098032b8c
  Attr: 0x7 (NonVolatile,BootServ,RunTime).
  Device Path: \ACPI(0xa0341d0,0x0)\PCI(0x0,0x1f)\ACPI(0x50141d0,0x0)\UART(115200 baud,8,1,1)\VENDOR(11d2f9be-0c9a-9000-273f-c14d7f010400)\USBCLASS(0xffff,0xffff,0x3,0x1,0x1).

Name: ConInDev.
  GUID: 8be4df61-93ca-11d2-aa0d-00e098032b8c
  Attr: 0x6 (BootServ,RunTime).
  Device Path: \ACPI(0xa0341d0,0x0)\PCI(0x0,0x1f)\ACPI(0x50141d0,0x0)\UART(115200 baud,8,1,1)\VENDOR(11d2f9be-0c9a-9000-273f-c14d7fff0400).

Name: Setup.
  GUID: 038bcef0-21e2-49d1-a47c-b7257296b980
  Attr: 0x7 (NonVolatile,BootServ,RunTime).
  Size: 114 bytes of data.
  Data: 0000: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
  Data: 0010: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
  Data: 0020: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
  Data: 0030: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
  Data: 0040: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
  Data: 0050: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
  Data: 0060: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
  Data: 0070: 01 00   
..

The tool will try to decode the binary data, however, if it cannot identify the variable type it will resort to doing a hex dump of the data instead.