Re: [PATCH v4 07/12] efi: passing kexec necessary efi data viasetup_data

[Dave Young]

Hi, Toshi

> Oh, I think I now understand what the issue was.  The z420 firmware
> updates the SMBIOS table address in the EFI system table to a virtual
> address after calling EFI SetVirtualAddressMap.  So, you are passing the
> original physical address of the SMBIOS table from the 1st kernel to the
> 2nd kernel to put it back to physical.  Is that right? 

Right.

Thanks
Dave
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