From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Vrabel Subject: Re: Is: kexec & EFI Was: Re: EFI GetNextVariableName crashes when running under Xen, but not under Linux. efi-rs=0 works. No memmap issues Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2015 14:40:46 +0000 Message-ID: <54CB97EE.1050702@citrix.com> References: <54C752460200007800059B8B@mail.emea.novell.com> <20150127142605.GA8814@l.oracle.com> <54C7C8110200007800059EE4@mail.emea.novell.com> <20150127182028.GB3678@x230.dumpdata.com> <54C8AE9C020000780005A31D@mail.emea.novell.com> <20150128160319.GB3923@l.oracle.com> <20150128161744.GB3473@olila.local.net-space.pl> <54C922B2020000780005A79A@mail.emea.novell.com> <20150128172045.GB7189@l.oracle.com> <54CA1AEC020000780005AAD0@mail.emea.novell.com> <20150130141727.GC4506@l.oracle.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mail6.bemta4.messagelabs.com ([85.158.143.247]) by lists.xen.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1YHCke-0002SN-59 for xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org; Fri, 30 Jan 2015 14:40:52 +0000 In-Reply-To: <20150130141727.GC4506@l.oracle.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org To: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk , Jan Beulich Cc: Andrew Cooper , Daniel Kiper , xen-devel List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On 30/01/15 14:17, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote: > > kexec is OS agnostic? Yes. Extra information to be passed to (e.g., a Linux kernel being kexec'd) can be supplied in an additional segment and marshalled into a suitable format/location for the exec'd kernel by purgatory (or similar). There shouldn't be a need to extend the hypervisor ABI for this. David