Messages in this thread |  | | | From | "Luck, Tony" <> | | Subject | RE: [RFC][PATCH v2 2/3] Hold multiple logs | | Date | Tue, 24 Jul 2012 21:12:25 +0000 |
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> 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
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