linux-kernel - Re: Use PCI ROMs from EFI boot services

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Date:	Fri, 24 Aug 2012 13:53:01 +0100
From:	Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...f.ucam.org>
To:	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-pci@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-efi@...r.kernel.org, mfleming@...el.com, bhelgaas@...gle.com
Subject: Re: Use PCI ROMs from EFI boot services

On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 10:30:01AM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-08-23 at 12:36 -0400, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > V3 just fixes all the casting issues and incorporates David's change in
> > search ordering.
> 
> I appreciate there are other issues with kexec under EFI, but let's not
> make it worse. What is the plan for making this work *after* kexec? Do
> these blobs get passed from the old kernel to the new? Does that work
> already?

kexec would presumably need to reconstruct the setup_data from the PCI 
objects.

-- 
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@...f.ucam.org
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