From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
To: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
Cc: kexec@lists.infradead.org, James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com,
horms@verge.net.au, kexec@lists.fedoraproject.org,
ebiederm@xmission.com, hpa@zytor.com, bp@alien8.de,
vgoyal@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [patch 2/4] remove extra acpi_rsdp command line for efi
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2013 10:12:56 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131028101256.GA3226@srcf.ucam.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131028095459.GE25527@dhcp-16-126.nay.redhat.com>
On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 05:54:59PM +0800, Dave Young wrote:
> Hi,
> Thanks for review.
>
> On 10/28/13 at 09:42am, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 12:04:39PM +0800, dyoung@redhat.com wrote:
> > > Removing code to pass acpi_rsdp because this
> > > patch series will support efi runtime, it's not
> > > necessary any more. EFI initialization code will
> > > take the functionality.
> >
> > Won't this break kexec of old kernels that don't have the new UEFI setup
> > code?
>
> For old kernels the efi setup_data esdata will be NULL, it wil switch to
> old logic. Also for old kernel user need to pass acpi_rsdp in cmdline
Right, but previously acpi_rsdp was passed automatically and now it
won't be?
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Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-10-28 10:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-10-27 4:04 [patch 0/4] kexec-tools: efi runtime support on kexec kernel dyoung
2013-10-27 4:04 ` [patch 1/4] Add function get_bootparam dyoung
2013-10-28 0:38 ` Simon Horman
2013-10-28 1:13 ` Dave Young
2013-10-28 2:30 ` Dave Young
2013-10-28 4:20 ` Simon Horman
2013-10-28 5:06 ` Dave Young
2013-10-28 6:08 ` Simon Horman
2013-10-27 4:04 ` [patch 2/4] remove extra acpi_rsdp command line for efi dyoung
2013-10-28 0:39 ` Simon Horman
2013-10-28 1:39 ` Dave Young
2013-10-28 9:42 ` Matthew Garrett
2013-10-28 9:54 ` Dave Young
2013-10-28 10:12 ` Matthew Garrett [this message]
2013-10-28 10:34 ` Dave Young
2013-10-28 10:39 ` Matthew Garrett
2013-10-28 10:45 ` Dave Young
2013-10-28 10:51 ` Matthew Garrett
2013-10-28 10:53 ` Dave Young
2013-10-29 3:05 ` Dave Young
2013-10-29 3:34 ` Dave Young
2013-10-29 8:50 ` Dave Young
2013-10-29 14:57 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-10-28 16:10 ` Vivek Goyal
2013-10-29 2:04 ` Simon Horman
2013-10-29 2:36 ` Dave Young
2013-10-29 3:18 ` Dave Young
2013-10-30 0:45 ` Simon Horman
2013-10-29 13:27 ` Vivek Goyal
2013-10-27 4:04 ` [patch 3/4] Add efi_info in x86 setup header dyoung
2013-10-27 4:04 ` [patch 4/4] Passing efi related data via setup_data dyoung
2013-10-28 0:37 ` Simon Horman
2013-10-28 1:12 ` Dave Young
2013-10-28 3:02 ` Dave Young
2013-10-28 4:16 ` Simon Horman
2013-10-28 1:28 ` Dave Young
2013-10-28 10:41 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-10-28 11:21 ` Dave Young
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