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kboot: Implement data_from_kernel to read kernel variables
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Authored by imp on Apr 16 2025, 7:24 PM.
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Since the linux kernel doesn't expose enough of the EFI details to
userland via /sys/firmware/efi, write a routine to extract data from the
kernel directly by parsing /proc/kproc and /proc/kallsyms.

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