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Date: Thu, 30 May 2013 17:28:36 -0500 From: Russ Anderson <rja@....com> To: Matthew Garrett <matthew.garrett@...ula.com> Cc: joeyli <jlee@...e.com>, Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>, Matt Fleming <matt@...sole-pimps.org>, "matt.fleming@...el.com" <matt.fleming@...el.com>, "linux-efi@...r.kernel.org" <linux-efi@...r.kernel.org>, "x86@...nel.org" <x86@...nel.org>, "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...ux.intel.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de> Subject: Re: [regression, bisected] x86: efi: Pass boot services variable info to runtime code On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 10:21:53PM +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Thu, 2013-05-30 at 17:17 -0500, 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. -- Russ Anderson, OS RAS/Partitioning Project Lead SGI - Silicon Graphics Inc rja@....com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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