From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from mail.skyhub.de ([2a01:4f8:120:8448::d00d]) by merlin.infradead.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80.1 #2 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1VoXTD-00078N-4a for kexec@lists.infradead.org; Thu, 05 Dec 2013 11:51:53 +0000 Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2013 12:51:24 +0100 From: Borislav Petkov Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 07/12] efi: passing kexec necessary efi data via setup_data Message-ID: <20131205115124.GC14407@pd.tnic> References: <1385445477-9665-8-git-send-email-dyoung@redhat.com> <20131127140732.GD32267@pd.tnic> <20131129091415.GH4186@dhcp-16-126.nay.redhat.com> <1386023600.1791.201.camel@misato.fc.hp.com> <1386034289.1791.210.camel@misato.fc.hp.com> <20131203015613.GB3980@dhcp-16-126.nay.redhat.com> <1386085140.1791.218.camel@misato.fc.hp.com> <20131204024610.GA3764@dhcp-16-126.nay.redhat.com> <1386175428.1791.225.camel@misato.fc.hp.com> <20131205015615.GC3736@dhcp-16-126.nay.redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20131205015615.GC3736@dhcp-16-126.nay.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" Errors-To: kexec-bounces+dwmw2=twosheds.infradead.org@lists.infradead.org To: Dave Young Cc: mjg59@srcf.ucam.org, linux-efi@vger.kernel.org, Toshi Kani , matt@console-pimps.org, greg@kroah.com, x86@kernel.org, kexec@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com, horms@verge.net.au, ebiederm@xmission.com, hpa@zytor.com, vgoyal@redhat.com On Thu, Dec 05, 2013 at 09:56:15AM +0800, Dave Young wrote: > > The z420 firmware is based on some UEFI core that may be used by other > > vendors as well. Since this handling is totally harmless (just > > redundant), I'd suggest not to have a platform check on this handling. > > I have same worry as well, so I agree with you. Btw, why does kexec need the ->smbios table at all? I see it being passed in efi_setup_data. -- Regards/Gruss, Boris. Sent from a fat crate under my desk. Formatting is fine. -- _______________________________________________ kexec mailing list kexec@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/kexec