From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]) by merlin.infradead.org with esmtp (Exim 4.76 #1 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1T9iyK-0005eY-9G for kexec@lists.infradead.org; Thu, 06 Sep 2012 20:46:45 +0000 Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2012 16:46:42 -0400 From: Vivek Goyal Subject: Re: [PATCH]kdump: pass noefi and acpi_rsdp= to 2nd kernel Message-ID: <20120906204642.GE27209@redhat.com> References: <20120905054445.GA6370@dhcp-16-143.nay.redhat.com> <20120905131852.GB19749@redhat.com> <5048114F.4050108@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5048114F.4050108@redhat.com> List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: kexec-bounces@lists.infradead.org Errors-To: kexec-bounces+dwmw2=infradead.org@lists.infradead.org To: Dave Young Cc: horms@verge.net.au, kexec@lists.infradead.org On Thu, Sep 06, 2012 at 10:58:23AM +0800, Dave Young wrote: [..] > > Also, what's the corelation of efi and acpi_rsdp. Is acpi_rsdp required > > only on EFI boot or in general it is required? If it is required in > > general, why kdump works currently. > > > Hi, here is the background of this issue: > http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/kexec/2010-March/003889.html Ok, looks like this is EFI specific. So keeping noefi and acpi_rsdp together makes sense. Thanks Vivek _______________________________________________ kexec mailing list kexec@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/kexec