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

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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.

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Russ Anderson, OS RAS/Partitioning Project Lead  
SGI - Silicon Graphics Inc          rja@xxxxxxx
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