Re: Runtime updates to EFI secure variables

From: Matthew Garrett
Date: Fri Jul 13 2012 - 14:02:30 EST


On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 06:12:26PM +0100, James Bottomley wrote:

> This means (provided we have access to the relevant keys) we can move
> the platform into and out of Setup Mode as well as add signing and other
> keys.

I'm pretty sure that the expected behaviour is to use
EFI_VARIABLE_APPEND_WRITE for these updates, which means you don't need
to worry about the timestamp.

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