On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 10:32:09PM +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Thu, 2013-05-30 at 17:28 -0500, Russ Anderson wrote: > > 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. > > We want to know how much space is used by variables that aren't visible > at runtime. We want to boot. We could boot up through 3.9-rc7. Knowing how much space is used by variables that aren't visible at runtime it moot if you can't boot. And again, maybe this is a bios bug - we have bios people looking into it - and maybe that call _should_ work, but the fact is the kernel booted without that change[1] and does not boot with it. [1] commit cc5a080c5d40c36089bb08a8a16fa3fc7047fe0f Thanks, -- Russ Anderson, OS RAS/Partitioning Project Lead SGI - Silicon Graphics Inc rja@xxxxxxx -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-efi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
