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

[Jiri Kosina]

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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