Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 31 May 2013 00:30:43 +0200 (CEST) | From | Jiri Kosina <> | Subject | Re: [regression, bisected] x86: efi: Pass boot services variable info to runtime code |
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On Thu, 30 May 2013, Russ Anderson wrote:
> > > That's a great idea. This patch moves the QueryVariableInfo() > > > call from bootime to runtime, in efi_late_init(). The attached > > > patch is consistent with the UEFI spec and avoids the problem. > > > > No, that defeats the entire point of the original patch. > > How so? It is still calling QueryVariableInfo() > before the data is used.
You lose information provided by QueryVariableInfo() about boot-only variables once the transition boot -> runtime has happened.
-- Jiri Kosina SUSE Labs
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