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From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
To: Takao Indoh <indou.takao@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, amwang@redhat.com,
	ebiederm@xmission.com, vgoyal@redhat.com, rdunlap@xenotime.net,
	lenb@kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, mjg@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] acpi: introduce "acpi_rsdp=" parameter for kdump
Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2011 13:23:18 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110711172318.GA18279@dumpdata.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E8CC3FDD41FF9Findou.takao@jp.fujitsu.com>

On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 11:14:41AM -0400, Takao Indoh wrote:
> Revised version of the patch which was posted by Cong WANG
> 
> v1:
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/3/10/206
> 
> There is a problem with putting the first kernel in EFI virtual mode,
> it is that when the second kernel comes up it tries to initialize the
> EFI again and once we have put EFI in virtual mode we can not really
> do that.
> 
> Actually, EFI is not necessary for kdump, we can boot the second kernel
> with "noefi" parameter, but the boot will mostly fail because 2nd kernel
> cannot find RSDP.
> 
> In this situation, we introduced "acpi_rsdp=" kernel parameter, so that
> kexec-tools can pass the "noefi acpi_rsdp=X" to the second kernel to make
> kdump works.
> 
> Changes in v2:
> * Change parameter name from "acpi_addr" to "acpi_rsdp"
> * Add CONFIG_KEXEC

How will the tools get the physical address of the RSDP?

  reply	other threads:[~2011-07-11 17:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-07-11 15:14 [PATCH v2] acpi: introduce "acpi_rsdp=" parameter for kdump Takao Indoh
2011-07-11 17:23 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk [this message]
2011-07-11 17:27   ` Matthew Garrett
2011-07-12 10:30 ` Cong Wang
2011-07-12 13:31   ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2011-07-14 22:05     ` Takao Indoh
2011-07-16 22:41       ` Len Brown

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