Re: [PATCH] export efi.flags to sysfs

[Vivek Goyal <vgoyal-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>]

On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 10:13:59AM +0800, Dave Young wrote:
> On 05/27/14 at 09:34am, Vivek Goyal wrote:
> > On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 04:39:35PM +0800, Dave Young wrote:
> > > 
> > > For efi=old_map and any old_map quirks like SGI UV in current
> > > tree kexec/kdump will fail because it depends on the new 1:1 mapping.
> > > 
> > > Thus export the mapping method to sysfs so kexec tools can switch
> > > to original way to boot.
> > > 
> > > Since we have efi.flags for all efi facilities so let's just export the
> > > efi.flags itself, it maybe useful for other arches and use cases.
> > > 
> > 
> > Does it require any documentation in Documentation/ABI/..
> 
> Yes, it's necessary. Will do in next version.
> 
> I'm still discussing with Matt, exporting efi.flags seems not a good way
> because they are more internal interfaces. 
> 
> Probably I should export only a file 'old_map' instead.

How does /sys/firmware/efi/runtime-map/* look like with old mapping? Can't
we look at it and figure out if it is 1:1 or not.

Thanks
Vivek