linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH -v2] EFI: Runtime services virtual mapping

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Message-ID: <20130930201730.GD16383@pd.tnic>
Date:	Mon, 30 Sep 2013 22:17:30 +0200
From:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To:	Dave Young <dyoung@...hat.com>
Cc:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, X86 ML <x86@...nel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>,
	Matt Fleming <matt@...sole-pimps.org>,
	Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...f.ucam.org>,
	James Bottomley <james.bottomley@...senpartnership.com>,
	Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@...hat.com>, linux-efi@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH -v2] EFI: Runtime services virtual mapping

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?

Because I'm looking into hpa's idea to pass an efi_mapping array of
regions with setup_data but how does this get passed to the kexec'ed
kernel? I see in your patches you have boot_params.saved_*** for the
needed info but you're not writing to them anywhere. Is that why you've
added them to the systab_show function so that userspace can parse it
and build the boot_params thing?

Thanks.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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