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Message-ID: <20131223023259.GC3760@dhcp-16-126.nay.redhat.com>
Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2013 10:32:59 +0800
From: Dave Young <dyoung@...hat.com>
To: Matt Fleming <matt@...sole-pimps.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 00/12] kexec kernel efi runtime support
On 12/21/13 at 05:35pm, Matt Fleming wrote:
> On Fri, 20 Dec, at 06:02:10PM, Dave Young wrote:
> > Here is the V7 patchset for supporting kexec kernel efi runtime.
> > Per pervious discussion I pass the 1st kernel efi runtime mapping
> > via setup_data to 2nd kernel. Besides of the runtime mapping
> > info I also pass the fw_vendor, runtime, config table, smbios
> > physical address in setup_data. EFI spec mentioned fw_vendor,
> > runtime, config table addresses will be converted to virt address
> > after entering virtual mode, but we will use it as physical address
> > in efi_init. For smbios EFI spec did not mention about the address
> > updating, but during my test on a HP workstation, the bios will
> > convert it to Virt addr, thus pass it in setup_data as well.
>
> OK Dave, I've pulled patches 3-12 into the 'kexec' branch at,
>
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mfleming/efi.git
>
> I plan on sending this branch to the tip folks this week for further
> testing.
>
> Please have a look and make sure I haven't messed anything up when
> dropping the first two patches (though they were very small and trival).
Matt, I have reviewed them, it looks good to me.
Thanks for removing the global variable in your last one.
Thanks
Dave
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