On Mon, Mar 11, 2019 at 03:04:49PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote: > Some UEFI firmware is easily provoked into running out of space in its > variable storage. This is usually due to certain kernel drivers (e.g. > pstore), but regardless of the cause it can cause grub-install to fail > because it currently asks efibootmgr to delete and re-add entries, and > the deletion often doesn't result in an immediate garbage collection. > Writing variables frequently also increases wear on the NVRAM which may > have limited write cycles. For these reasons, it's desirable to find a > way to minimise writes while still allowing grub-install to ensure that > a suitable boot entry exists. > > This short patch series does so by using the efivar and efiboot > libraries directly.
This looks like something for longer discussion. So, I am going to take the patchset after the release if you do not convince me that it should land in the GRUB 2.04. And I agree with Steve comments. Daniel _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
