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From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] efi: Make 'efi_enabled' a function to query EFI
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Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2013 20:56:11 +0000
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On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 01:54:30PM -0700, Dave Jiang wrote:

> I think that here we may need to be checking efi_enabled(EFI_BOOT)
> instead. We are interested in the kernel was booted from EFI and
> that EFI variables support is present. Or is getting efi variable
> part of runtime services?

GetVariable is part of runtime services, yes.

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