Re: EFI runtime-services on x86_64

[Matthew Garrett]

On Tue, Aug 03, 2010 at 02:45:33PM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote:

> EFI runtime calls have the nasty fact that they don't work in general even
> if EFI is present because you may have the wrong word size EFI running on
> your machine.  A 32bit EFI and a 64bit kernel or a 64bit EFI and a 32bit kernel.

You've already failed to boot in that case.

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