Looking at the patch, it appears to fall back to the previous behavior if it fails to read the new sysfs knob, so including it won't cause any harm, but without the corresponding kernel patch, it won't do what it is supposed to do either.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1409750 Title: grub2/kernel EFI firware size interface Status in grub2 package in Ubuntu: Triaged Status in linux package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: Seems that grub2 needs the ability to "size" the EFI implementation it is running on. This is being exposed via the kernel in a patch queued for v3.20 (http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.efi/5229). This is being taken early in debian under debian #775191 (linux) and debian #775202 (grub2) (https://bugs.debian.org/775191, https://bugs.debian.org/775202). Additional discussion is available here: http://blog.einval.com/2015/01/11#Jessie-EFI_5 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/1409750/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : kernel-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
