[PATCH] acpi/boot: skip ACPI BOOT test on UEFI systems.

Alex Hung alex.hung at canonical.com
Wed Sep 18 09:51:03 UTC 2019


BOOT table is for PC-AT BIOS, and UEFI systems shall use
SimpleBootFlag variable is stored in NVRAM.

Signed-off-by: Alex Hung <alex.hung at canonical.com>
---
 src/acpi/boot/boot.c | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/acpi/boot/boot.c b/src/acpi/boot/boot.c
index 081b8b37..2bd93659 100644
--- a/src/acpi/boot/boot.c
+++ b/src/acpi/boot/boot.c
@@ -35,6 +35,10 @@ static int boot_init(fwts_framework *fw)
 		fwts_log_error(fw, "Cannot read ACPI tables.");
 		return FWTS_ERROR;
 	}
+	if (!access("/sys/firmware/efi", R_OK)) {
+		fwts_log_error(fw, "ACPI BOOT table is depreciated on UEFI firmware, skipping test");
+		return FWTS_SKIP;
+	}
 	if (table == NULL || (table && table->length == 0)) {
 		fwts_log_error(fw, "ACPI BOOT table does not exist, skipping test");
 		return FWTS_SKIP;
-- 
2.20.1




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