Re: [PATCH 5.10 011/100] efi: runtime: avoid EFIv2 runtime services on Apple x86 machines

From: Matthew Garrett
Date: Thu Feb 03 2022 - 15:59:37 EST


On Thu, Feb 03, 2022 at 09:52:23PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:

> This problem is not 64-bit specific, right? Should it depend on
> CONFIG_X86, instead?

Only 64-bit systems are affected (the one 32-bit generation of Apple
hardware implementing EFI only claims 1.10 support), and 32-bit kernels
can't make 64-bit UEFI runtime calls, so I think it's correct to make it
64-bit only.