Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 28 May 2013 11:50:41 +0100 | From | Matt Fleming <> | Subject | Re: [regression, bisected] x86: efi: Pass boot services variable info to runtime code |
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On Fri, 24 May, at 03:49:38PM, Russ Anderson wrote: > Why does the kernel still try to create /sys/firmware/efivars/ > entries in the original failure even though efi_call_phys4() > failed? Or does it always try to create those entries > and GetNextVariable() blows up in the original failure > but not in my experiment?
CONFIG_EFI_VARS will try to create /sys/firmware/efivars even without the additional info from the early EFI boot variable code. The early variable code is only a heuristic that is supposed to improve the anti-bricking algorithm in the EFI variable code.
-- Matt Fleming, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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