Re: [PATCH v1 2/2] firmware: dmi_scan: Pass dmi_entry_point to kexec'ed kernel

[Jean Delvare]

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?

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Jean Delvare
SUSE L3 Support