On Thu, 2012-09-06 at 16:24 -0400, Vivek Goyal wrote: > On Wed, Sep 05, 2012 at 05:09:29PM -0600, Khalid Aziz wrote: > [..] > > More work will be needed to make this work, for example pass the > > EFI runtime service memory map from one kernel to the next so we > > keep it mapped in exact same spot, and other similar mapping issues. > > Hi Khalid, > > This sounds like significant amount of work. So till this work really > gets merged, noefi is not a bad option. Atleast it will allow us > to capture dump. And once a generic fix is in, one can remove it and > build more fancy features which make use of EFI services in second > kernel? Hi Vivek, You are right, it indeed is significant amount of work. I agree noefi is a reasonable option until EFI is fully working with kexec. As long as noefi is not seen as long term solution, it makes perfect sense. Thanks -- Khalid Aziz <khalid.aziz at hp.com>
