From: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
To: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>, Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>
Cc: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com>,
kexec@lists.infradead.org, Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 2/2] firmware: dmi_scan: Pass dmi_entry_point to kexec'ed kernel
Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2016 14:18:58 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1481890738.9552.70.camel@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20161216023213.GA4505@dhcp-128-65.nay.redhat.com>
On Fri, 2016-12-16 at 10:32 +0800, Dave Young wrote:
> On 12/15/16 at 12:28pm, Jean Delvare wrote:
> > Hi Andy,
> >
> > On Fri, 2 Dec 2016 21:54:16 +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > > Until now kexec'ed kernel has no clue where to look for DMI entry
> > > point.
> > >
> > > Pass it via kernel command line parameter in the same way as it's
> > > done for ACPI
> > > RSDP.
> >
> > I am no kexec expert but this confuses me. Shouldn't the second
> > kernel
> > have access to the EFI systab as the first kernel does? It includes
> > many more pointers than just ACPI and DMI tables, and it would seem
> > inconvenient to have to pass all these addresses individually
> > explicitly.
>
> Yes, in modern linux kernel, kexec has the support for EFI, I think it
> should work naturally at least in x86_64.
Thanks for this good news!
Unfortunately Intel Galileo is 32-bit platform.
--
Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Intel Finland Oy
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2016-12-15 11:28 ` [PATCH v1 2/2] firmware: dmi_scan: Pass dmi_entry_point to kexec'ed kernel Jean Delvare
2016-12-16 2:32 ` Dave Young
2016-12-16 12:18 ` Andy Shevchenko [this message]
2016-12-16 13:33 ` Jean Delvare
2016-12-17 10:57 ` Dave Young
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2020-05-21 17:39 ` Andy Shevchenko
2021-06-02 8:37 ` Andy Shevchenko
2021-06-02 8:53 ` Andy Shevchenko
2016-12-17 10:50 ` Dave Young
2021-06-02 8:42 ` [PATCH v1 0/2] firmware: dmi_scan: Make it work in " Andy Shevchenko
2021-06-02 8:53 ` Andy Shevchenko
2021-06-05 7:51 ` Dave Young
2021-06-07 16:22 ` Andy Shevchenko
2021-06-07 17:18 ` Andy Shevchenko
2021-06-08 12:25 ` Dave Young
2021-06-08 12:38 ` Andy Shevchenko
2021-06-09 11:55 ` Dave Young
2021-06-12 4:40 ` Dave Young
2021-06-14 15:38 ` Andy Shevchenko
2021-06-14 17:07 ` Andy Shevchenko
2021-06-14 17:27 ` Andy Shevchenko
2021-07-19 7:53 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2021-07-19 8:25 ` Andy Shevchenko
2021-10-06 16:28 ` Andy Shevchenko
2021-10-07 7:20 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2021-10-07 7:23 ` Andy Shevchenko
2021-10-17 13:31 ` Ard Biesheuvel
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