On 12 July 2018 at 15:12, Mark Brown <broo...@kernel.org> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 12, 2018 at 01:50:45PM +0100, Daniel Thompson wrote: > >> The OS will discover the variable is non-modifiable when it tried to >> set it. Won't the current proposal mislead standards compliant use of >> GetVariable()? For example does it it makes standards compliant code >> *more* likely to call SetVariable() in order to fix up a variable that >> it thinks was incorrectly set with the NON_VOLATILE attribute. > > Do any existing implementations change variables from non-volatile to > volatile? >
The UEFI spec is explicit about which variables are volatile and which are not. Simply relaxing non-volatile to volatile in the general case doesn't seem like a useful approach to me. _______________________________________________ boot-architecture mailing list boot-architecture@lists.linaro.org https://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/boot-architecture
