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From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
To: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Cc: linux-efi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Runtime updates to EFI secure variables
Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2012 19:02:31 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120713180231.GA19355@srcf.ucam.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1342199546.3039.30.camel@dabdike.int.hansenpartnership.com>

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.

-- 
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org

  reply	other threads:[~2012-07-13 18:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-07-13 17:12 James Bottomley
2012-07-13 18:02 ` Matthew Garrett [this message]
2012-07-13 18:26   ` James Bottomley

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