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From: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
To: Pingfan Liu <piliu@redhat.com>
Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
	Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>, Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>,
	Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>,
	Jan Hendrik Farr <kernel@jfarr.cc>,
	Philipp Rudo <prudo@redhat.com>,
	Lennart Poettering <mzxreary@0pointer.de>,
	kexec@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCHv2 0/3] kexec: Add support for UKI format kernel
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2024 11:20:05 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20241021102005.GB402847@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20241016113418.22568-1-piliu@redhat.com>

On Wed, Oct 16, 2024 at 07:34:12PM +0800, Pingfan Liu wrote:
> As a UEFI PE format kernel image becomes more popular, there is a need
> for kexec to reboot those kinds of images.
> 
> After the introduction of the UKI (another PE), at present, there are
> three competitive methods to support that goal, but all of them have
> pros and cons.[1] It seems that none of them can be accepted in the near
> future.  Therefore, we are resorting to the user space kexec-tools to
> parse the UKI format for the time being.
> 
> By parsing the UKI, systemd-stub is stepped around and PCM will not affect
> the boot up of the second system.
> 
> [1]: https://github.com/rhkdump/kexec_uefi/blob/main/overview.md#the-competitive-solutions

Thanks,

Series applied.

Please see my request for a follow-up for patch 2/3 [1].

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/kexec/20241021101646.GA402847@kernel.org/

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2024-10-21 10:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-10-16 11:34 [PATCHv2 0/3] kexec: Add support for UKI format kernel Pingfan Liu
2024-10-16 11:34 ` [PATCHv2 1/3] kexec: Introduce implicit_initrd_fd to pass internal initrd information Pingfan Liu
2024-10-16 11:34 ` [PATCHv2 2/3] kexec: Introduce UKI image parser Pingfan Liu
2024-10-21 10:16   ` Simon Horman
2024-10-22  6:33     ` Pingfan Liu
2024-10-22  6:27   ` [PATCHv3 " Pingfan Liu
2024-10-16 11:34 ` [PATCHv2 3/3] arm64: Support UKI image format Pingfan Liu
2024-10-21 10:20 ` Simon Horman [this message]
2024-10-21 16:25 ` [PATCHv2 0/3] kexec: Add support for UKI format kernel Philipp Rudo
2024-10-22  6:25   ` Pingfan Liu

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