From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2014 11:07:03 +0100 From: Mark Rutland Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] arm64 kexec kernel patches V3 Message-ID: <20141008100703.GI27216@leverpostej> References: <20141007180954.GH27464@redhat.com> <1412712462.32313.127.camel@smoke> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: 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=infradead.org@lists.infradead.org To: Leif Lindholm Cc: "linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" , Geoff Levand , Catalin Marinas , Will Deacon , Marc Zyngier , Christoffer Dall , "kexec@lists.infradead.org" , Vivek Goyal On Wed, Oct 08, 2014 at 10:52:09AM +0100, Leif Lindholm wrote: > On 7 October 2014 21:07, Geoff Levand wrote: > > You need to use a UEFI kernel loader. > > No such thing exists. > The "built-in Linux loader" is a u-boot emulator (try it, it will work > with a uImage on v7) added for early development purposes and > unfortunately released in the wild. > It will very shortly disappear from Linaro UEFI builds. To further Leif's point, the "built-in Linux loader" is not in the UEFI spec, and is therefore not a portion of UEFI. It is a crutch, and it should not be relied upon as anything more than an aid during bringup. Mark. _______________________________________________ kexec mailing list kexec@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/kexec