Re: [PATCH 15/16] bootparam: Pass acpi_rsdp pointer in bootparam

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Fri Sep 13 2013 - 07:26:25 EST


On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 03:12:40PM +0800, Dave Young wrote:
> Also the fw_vendor, runtime, tables elements will be fixed up to use
> virtual address after 1st kernel call SetVirtualAddress, so even with
> 1:1 mapping we still need save them and use in kexec kernel.

As I said a couple of times already, 1:1 mapping is a no go.

Concerning the runtime services, we need to pass the UEFI memory map to
the kexec'ed kernel because it needs to know those to start mapping them
from -4G virtual downwards.

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Regards/Gruss,
Boris.
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