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Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2013 14:25:16 +0200
From: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
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Subject: Re: Cannot add new efi boot entry
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On 04/22/2013 02:20 PM, Matt Fleming wrote:
> On 22/04/13 12:31, joeyli wrote:
>> Does garbage collection only trigger by UEFI BIOS when system reboot? or
>> garbage collection also triggered at run time?
> 
> That is implementation specific. AFAIK, there are implementations for
> both schemes.

Just a point from the abstract level. Is there a way to find out? And
what do Windows do?

thanks,
-- 
js
suse labs
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