> I think we inevitably lose in that scenario. I'd need to verify, but my > recollection is that overwriting existing variables may be equivalent to > a delete/create cycle.
This would mean that EFI really wants the OS to treat EFI variables as pretty much exclusively read-only. Any activity which periodically updates a variable would eventually run into problems in an EFI implementation that loses the old space until a reset. Sad. -Tony -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
