From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To: "Tolentino, Matthew E" <matthew.e.tolentino@intel.com>
Cc: Grant Grundler <iod00d@hp.com>,
"Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org>,
fastboot@osdl.org, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org,
Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@engr.sgi.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Fastboot] Re: [BROKEN PATCH] kexec for ia64
Date: Thu, 05 Aug 2004 21:29:09 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m18yct2s0q.fsf@ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <D36CE1FCEFD3524B81CA12C6FE5BCAB00750E615@fmsmsx406.amr.corp.intel.com>
"Tolentino, Matthew E" <matthew.e.tolentino@intel.com> writes:
> >On Wed, Aug 04, 2004 at 08:14:55PM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> >> VGA/serial console devices rarely need to do be bus masters so they
> >> should be fine.
> >
> >yeah - you are right. I wasn't thinking.
> >Can anyone comment on UGA or other console devices?
>
> UGA is essentially a PCI device. It uses the EFI PCI I/O
> protocol which gets glued to the kernels pci layer...at least in
> a prototype.
>
> I haven't looked at the latest kexec patch. How is it handling
> the call to EFI's SetVirtualAddressMap()? Is it part of the config
> associated with kexec to do efi calls in physical mode only so that
> it doesn't have to contend with potential follow-on invocations
> resultant from "the next" kernel's initialization?
It should be. So far all I have seen are tentative ia64 kexec patches.
Eric
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-08-05 21:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-07-26 22:24 [BROKEN PATCH] kexec for ia64 Jesse Barnes
2004-07-26 22:36 ` Jesse Barnes
2004-07-26 23:09 ` David Mosberger
2004-07-26 23:30 ` David Mosberger
2004-07-26 23:34 ` Jesse Barnes
2004-07-26 23:42 ` David Mosberger
2004-07-27 8:24 ` Christian Hildner
2004-07-27 14:49 ` Jesse Barnes
2004-07-27 16:50 ` Luck, Tony
2004-07-30 22:55 ` Randy.Dunlap
2004-08-04 13:07 ` Eric W. Biederman
2004-08-04 16:24 ` Jesse Barnes
2004-08-04 23:33 ` Grant Grundler
2004-08-05 2:14 ` [Fastboot] " Eric W. Biederman
2004-08-05 15:39 ` Grant Grundler
2004-08-05 16:44 ` Eric W. Biederman
2004-08-05 19:44 ` Tolentino, Matthew E
2004-08-05 21:29 ` Eric W. Biederman [this message]
2004-08-05 22:15 ` Eric W. Biederman
2004-08-05 16:45 ` Luck, Tony
2004-08-05 17:05 ` [Fastboot] " Eric W. Biederman
2004-08-05 19:18 ` Khalid Aziz
2004-08-05 18:28 ` Grant Grundler
2004-08-05 18:56 ` Eric W. Biederman
2004-08-05 21:24 ` Grant Grundler
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