Re: [patch 2/4] remove extra acpi_rsdp command line for efi

Dave Young
2013-10-28T10:54:37Z

On 10/28/13 at 10:51am, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 06:45:32PM +0800, Dave Young wrote:
> > On 10/28/13 at 10:39am, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > > On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 06:34:12PM +0800, Dave Young wrote:
> > > > On 10/28/13 at 10:12am, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > > > > Right, but previously acpi_rsdp was passed automatically and now it
> > > > > won't be?
> > > >
> > > > Yes, it was. I'm removing them in kexec-tools patches for efi runtime support.
> > >
> > > If I upgrade kexec-tools and try to launch an old kernel, I now need to
> > > add an extra parameter?
> >
> > Yes, it should work by passing the acpi_rsdp= via --append
>
> Yes, that's my point. You're breaking old configurations by requiring
> the user to pass an additional argument.

Hmm, I will do some test without this patch, if it works well it's not
harmful to drop this one.