Re: [PATCH] efi: be more paranoid about available space when creating variables

2013-03-24 Thread Sergey Fionov
Hello. My ASUS P8Z68-V PRO motherboard's UEFI cleans up EFI variables space only if it is full when system boots. So with this patch and 32kb of 64kb space used I can't use efibootmgr to create new boot entries until EFI variables space become full and then is cleaned up by UEFI. It can be done

Re: [PATCH] efi: be more paranoid about available space when creating variables

2013-03-04 Thread Matt Fleming
On Sat, 2013-03-02 at 19:40 -0500, Matthew Garrett wrote: > UEFI variables are typically stored in flash. For various reasons, avaiable > space is typically not reclaimed immediately upon the deletion of a > variable - instead, the system will garbage collect during initialisation > after a reboot.