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

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 05/29/2013 01:16 PM, Russ Anderson wrote:
> 
> To be more specific (now that I've dug through the code), grub2 (used
> by rhel7) uses EFI boot stubs.  grub and elilo apparently do not use
> EFI boot stubs, so they don't hit the problem (at least on my test
> systems).
> 

Grub2 *can* use the EFI boot stub... as far as I know it doesn't by
default, but the way it is used in RHEL does.

Either way, we need to fix this and fix it soon.

	-hpa


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