On Wed, 2012-12-05 at 13:09 -0700, Bjorn Helgaas wrote: > > David, Eric, what about the kexec question? It looks to me like this > wouldn't make things worse than they are today. If I understand > correctly, today we don't use ROM data from EFI on either an initial > boot or a kexec. After this patch, we could use EFI ROM data on the > initial boot, but not after a kexec. So it's worse in the sense that > the kexec case doesn't match the initial boot, but at least it's not > something that used to work and is now broken.
Yeah, kexec under EFI doesn't work too well. I have a firmware running in qemu locally which will let you call SetVirtualAddressMap more than once, which is a step towards fixing it sanely. It got preempted, but I'll take another look at it shortly. -- David Woodhouse Open Source Technology Centre david.woodho...@intel.com Intel Corporation
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