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

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Thu Dec 05 2013 - 06:51:36 EST


On Thu, Dec 05, 2013 at 09:56:15AM +0800, Dave Young wrote:
> > The z420 firmware is based on some UEFI core that may be used by other
> > vendors as well. Since this handling is totally harmless (just
> > redundant), I'd suggest not to have a platform check on this handling.
>
> I have same worry as well, so I agree with you.

Btw, why does kexec need the ->smbios table at all? I see it being
passed in efi_setup_data.

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Regards/Gruss,
Boris.

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