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efi: Explain OVMF acronym in OVMF_DEBUG_LOG help text

People not very intimate with EFI may not know the meaning of the OVMF
acronym. Write it in full, to help users with making good decisions
when configuring their kernels.

Fixes: f393a761763c5427 ("efi: add ovmf debug log driver")
Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>
Reviewed-by: Richard Lyu <richard.lyu@suse.com>
Acked-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>

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Geert Uytterhoeven and committed by
Ard Biesheuvel
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drivers/firmware/efi/Kconfig
··· 267 267 bool "Expose OVMF firmware debug log via sysfs" 268 268 depends on EFI 269 269 help 270 - Recent OVMF versions (edk2-stable202508 + newer) can write 271 - their debug log to a memory buffer. This driver exposes the 272 - log content via sysfs (/sys/firmware/efi/ovmf_debug_log). 270 + Recent versions of the Open Virtual Machine Firmware 271 + (edk2-stable202508 + newer) can write their debug log to a memory 272 + buffer. This driver exposes the log content via sysfs 273 + (/sys/firmware/efi/ovmf_debug_log). 273 274 274 275 config UNACCEPTED_MEMORY 275 276 bool