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From: Khalid Aziz <khalid.aziz@hp.com>
To: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Cc: dyoung@redhat.com, horms@verge.net.au, kexec@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH]kdump: pass noefi and acpi_rsdp= to 2nd kernel
Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2012 08:32:33 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1347028353.20255.75.camel@lyra> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120906202406.GD27209@redhat.com>

On Thu, 2012-09-06 at 16:24 -0400, Vivek Goyal wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 05, 2012 at 05:09:29PM -0600, Khalid Aziz wrote:
> [..]
> > More work will be needed to make this work, for example pass the
> > EFI runtime service memory map from one kernel to the next so we
> > keep it mapped in exact same spot, and other similar mapping issues.
> 
> Hi Khalid,
> 
> This sounds like significant amount of work. So till this work really
> gets merged, noefi is not a bad option. Atleast it will allow us
> to capture dump. And once a generic fix is in, one can remove it and
> build more fancy features which make use of EFI services in second
> kernel?

Hi Vivek,

You are right, it indeed is significant amount of work. I agree noefi is
a reasonable option until EFI is fully working with kexec. As long as
noefi is not seen as long term solution, it makes perfect sense.

Thanks
-- 
Khalid Aziz <khalid.aziz@hp.com>


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      reply	other threads:[~2012-09-07 14:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-09-05  5:44 [PATCH]kdump: pass noefi and acpi_rsdp= to 2nd kernel Dave Young
2012-09-05  7:45 ` Simon Horman
2012-09-06  2:48   ` Dave Young
2012-09-05 13:18 ` Vivek Goyal
2012-09-06  2:58   ` Dave Young
2012-09-06 20:46     ` Vivek Goyal
2012-09-05 23:09 ` Khalid Aziz
2012-09-06  3:18   ` Dave Young
2012-09-06 17:57     ` Khalid Aziz
2012-09-07  8:56       ` Dave Young
2012-09-07 14:37         ` Khalid Aziz
2012-09-13 13:38           ` Vivek Goyal
2012-09-14 20:32             ` Khalid Aziz
2012-09-20  7:49               ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-09-21 22:50                 ` Khalid Aziz
2012-09-12  2:35         ` Dave Young
2012-10-18  3:12           ` Dave Young
2012-10-18 14:59             ` Khalid Aziz
2012-10-22  2:05               ` Dave Young
2012-09-06 20:24   ` Vivek Goyal
2012-09-07 14:32     ` Khalid Aziz [this message]

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