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

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Date:	Wed, 05 Dec 2012 16:21:32 -0800
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...f.ucam.org>
CC:	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>,
	Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-pci@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-efi@...r.kernel.org, mfleming@...el.com, dwmw2@...radead.org,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
Subject: Re: Use PCI ROMs from EFI boot services

On 12/05/2012 04:18 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 05, 2012 at 04:15:56PM -0800, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> 
>> at the same time we should export setup_data into /sys, so kexec could
>> append this pointer to command of
>> second kernel, just like kexec append acpi_rsdp.
>> That should address DavidW's concern.
> 
> Why should the kernel export data to userspace just so that that data 
> can be passed back into the kernel?
> 

Because it also needs to modify it.  Right now kexec userspace
synthesizes struct boot_params from scratch, and does so incorrectly to
boot.  I think we have setup_data exported via debugfs but IIRC we never
got a strong enough use case for sysfs.

	-hpa

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