From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932403Ab3KMPuo (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Nov 2013 10:50:44 -0500 Received: from arkanian.console-pimps.org ([212.110.184.194]:32862 "EHLO arkanian.console-pimps.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932380Ab3KMPug (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Nov 2013 10:50:36 -0500 Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2013 15:50:32 +0000 From: Matt Fleming To: dyoung@redhat.com Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-efi@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org, mjg59@srcf.ucam.org, hpa@zytor.com, James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com, vgoyal@redhat.com, ebiederm@xmission.com, horms@verge.net.au, kexec@lists.infradead.org, bp@alien8.de Subject: Re: [patch 6/7 v2] passing kexec necessary efi data via setup_data Message-ID: <20131113155032.GD17248@console-pimps.org> References: <20131105082007.872550445@dhcp-16-126.nay.redhat.com> <20131105082718.837997775@dhcp-16-126.nay.redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20131105082718.837997775@dhcp-16-126.nay.redhat.com> 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 Tue, 05 Nov, at 04:20:13PM, dyoung@redhat.com wrote: > Add a new setup_data type SETUP_EFI for kexec use. > Passing the saved fw_vendor, runtime, config tables and > efi runtime mappings. > > When entering virtual mode, directly mapping the efi > runtime ragions which we passed in previously. And skip > the step to call SetVirtualAddressMap. > > Specially for HP z420 workstation it need another variable > saving, it's the smbios physical address, the HP bios > also update the SMBIOS address after entering virtual mode > besides of the standard fw_vendor,runtime and config table. Does that mean that on some of the platforms you tested the SMBIOS address isn't updated? -- Matt Fleming, Intel Open Source Technology Center