linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 08/11] kexec-bzImage: Support for loading bzImage using 64bit entry

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Message-ID: <20140305194729.GF28317@pd.tnic>
Date:	Wed, 5 Mar 2014 20:47:29 +0100
From:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To:	Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@...hat.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kexec@...ts.infradead.org,
	ebiederm@...ssion.com, hpa@...or.com, mjg59@...f.ucam.org,
	greg@...ah.com, jkosina@...e.cz
Subject: Re: [PATCH 08/11] kexec-bzImage: Support for loading bzImage using
 64bit entry

On Wed, Mar 05, 2014 at 01:40:10PM -0500, Vivek Goyal wrote:
> I thought Dave passed relevant information on bootparams and some in
> cmdline (I have not looked at details). Once the EFI support is in,
> kernel implementaion should do the same thing as kexec-tools is doing
> to pass EFI mapping information to second kernel.

Right, he reads the runtime map from sysfs:

Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-firmware-efi-runtime-map

How exactly he prepares it with kexec-tools I don't remember anymore - I
just skimmed over that part at the time.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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