linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] x86/boot: Use efi_setup_data for searching RSDP on kexec-ed kernels

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Date:   Wed, 17 Apr 2019 10:22:50 +0200
From:   Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To:     Dave Young <dyoung@...hat.com>
Cc:     Junichi Nomura <j-nomura@...jp.nec.com>,
        Chao Fan <fanc.fnst@...fujitsu.com>,
        Baoquan He <bhe@...hat.com>, Kairui Song <kasong@...hat.com>,
        "x86@...nel.org" <x86@...nel.org>,
        "kexec@...ts.infradead.org" <kexec@...ts.infradead.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/boot: Use efi_setup_data for searching RSDP on
 kexec-ed kernels

On Wed, Apr 17, 2019 at 09:38:38AM +0800, Dave Young wrote:
> But if you want to apply it now, I think it is fine as well, probably
> the laptop issue is lenovo firmware specific, we can add rsdp in cmdline
> or boot params via kexec-tools so it should be good by using new kexec-tools.

I'm not in a hurry to apply it - if you guys wanna debug this further,
sure, we can wait and then tag all the fixes for stable so that they can
get backported.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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