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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2/2] pstore: update the policy of the UEFI-based backend
I don't think this is reasonable. EFI variable space is a shared 
resource. We have no idea what the failure modes of entirely filling it
would be. If we're going to store multiple records then at the very
least we need to use QueryVariableInfo() to identify how much space
there is left, and if it's a 2.1 or later system then we ideally need to
store these as EFI_VARIABLE_HARDWARE_ERROR_RECORD rather than just plain
runtime variables. The reason the current implementation doesn't do that
is that there's still hardware floating around that implements EFI 1.10
rather than UEFI 2.0

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org


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