Re: [PATCH V6 2/3] efi: Pass boot services variable info to runtime code

2013-04-22 Thread Paul Bolle
On Mon, 2013-04-15 at 13:09 -0700, Matthew Garrett wrote: > EFI variables can be flagged as being accessible only within boot services. > This makes it awkward for us to figure out how much space they use at > runtime. In theory we could figure this out by simply comparing the results > from

Re: [PATCH V6 2/3] efi: Pass boot services variable info to runtime code

2013-04-22 Thread Paul Bolle
On Mon, 2013-04-15 at 13:09 -0700, Matthew Garrett wrote: EFI variables can be flagged as being accessible only within boot services. This makes it awkward for us to figure out how much space they use at runtime. In theory we could figure this out by simply comparing the results from

[PATCH V6 2/3] efi: Pass boot services variable info to runtime code

2013-04-15 Thread Matthew Garrett
EFI variables can be flagged as being accessible only within boot services. This makes it awkward for us to figure out how much space they use at runtime. In theory we could figure this out by simply comparing the results from QueryVariableInfo() to the space used by all of our variables, but that

[PATCH V6 2/3] efi: Pass boot services variable info to runtime code

2013-04-15 Thread Matthew Garrett
EFI variables can be flagged as being accessible only within boot services. This makes it awkward for us to figure out how much space they use at runtime. In theory we could figure this out by simply comparing the results from QueryVariableInfo() to the space used by all of our variables, but that