From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756431Ab3I3Uf2 (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Sep 2013 16:35:28 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:25693 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755734Ab3I3Uf1 (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Sep 2013 16:35:27 -0400 Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2013 16:35:05 -0400 From: Vivek Goyal To: Borislav Petkov Cc: Dave Young , "H. Peter Anvin" , X86 ML , LKML , Borislav Petkov , Matt Fleming , Matthew Garrett , James Bottomley , linux-efi@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH -v2] EFI: Runtime services virtual mapping Message-ID: <20130930203505.GA6116@redhat.com> References: <52422A6A.8080305@zytor.com> <20130926031242.GA4487@dhcp-16-126.nay.redhat.com> <20130930201730.GD16383@pd.tnic> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20130930201730.GD16383@pd.tnic> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 10:17:30PM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote: > On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 11:12:42AM +0800, Dave Young wrote: > > If we choose this approach, can we save not only the efi_mapping, but > > also the fields which will be converted to virt addr, like fw_vendor, > > runtime, tables? During my test on a HP workstation, the config table > > item (SMBIOS) also is converted to virt addr though spec only mention > > fw_vendor/runtime/tables. > > Btw, I was about to ask: how do you pass boot_params to the kexec > kernel? kexec-tools in user space prepares the boot_params and passes it to second kernel. Thanks Vivek