Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] x86, kexec_file_load: make it work with efi=noruntime or efi=old_map

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Fri Jan 18 2019 - 05:26:41 EST


On Thu, Jan 17, 2019 at 03:41:13PM +0800, Kairui Song wrote:
> How about we refill the boot_params.acpi_rsdp_addr if it is not valid
> in early code, so it could be used as a reliable RSDP address source?
> That should make things easier.
>
> But if early code should parse it and store it should be done in
> Chao's patch, or I can post another patch to do it if Chao's patch is
> merged.

Chao's stuff does the as early as possible parsing of RDSP. Then, it
should be saved into boot_params and everything else should read it from
there. Simple.

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Regards/Gruss,
Boris.

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