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SubjectRe: [regression, bisected] x86: efi: Pass boot services variable info to runtime code
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.

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Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs


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