Re: [regression, bisected] x86: efi: Pass boot services variableinfo to runtime code

[Matt Fleming]

On Fri, 24 May, at 03:49:38PM, Russ Anderson wrote:
> Why does the kernel still try to create /sys/firmware/efivars/
> entries in the original failure even though efi_call_phys4()
> failed?  Or does it always try to create those entries
> and GetNextVariable() blows up in the original failure
> but not in my experiment?

CONFIG_EFI_VARS will try to create /sys/firmware/efivars even without
the additional info from the early EFI boot variable code. The early
variable code is only a heuristic that is supposed to improve the
anti-bricking algorithm in the EFI variable code.

-- 
Matt Fleming, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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