linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v1 2/2] firmware: dmi_scan: Pass dmi_entry

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Date:   Fri, 16 Dec 2016 14:33:30 +0100
From:   Jean Delvare <jdelvare@...e.de>
To:     Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:     Dave Young <dyoung@...hat.com>, kexec@...ts.infradead.org,
        Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@...ux.intel.com>,
        Eric Biederman <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 2/2] firmware: dmi_scan: Pass dmi_entry_point to
 kexec'ed kernel

On Fri, 16 Dec 2016 14:18:58 +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Fri, 2016-12-16 at 10:32 +0800, Dave Young wrote:
> > On 12/15/16 at 12:28pm, Jean Delvare wrote:
> > > I am no kexec expert but this confuses me. Shouldn't the second
> > > kernel have access to the EFI systab as the first kernel does? It
> > > includes many more pointers than just ACPI and DMI tables, and it
> > > would seem inconvenient to have to pass all these addresses
> > > individually explicitly.
> > 
> > Yes, in modern linux kernel, kexec has the support for EFI, I think it
> > should work naturally at least in x86_64.
> 
> Thanks for this good news!
> 
> Unfortunately Intel Galileo is 32-bit platform.

If it was done for X86_64 then maybe it can be generalized to X86?

-- 
Jean Delvare
SUSE L3 Support