On 09/13/2012 07:38 AM, Vivek Goyal wrote: > So what does this mean? Second kernel assumes the regular BIOS and tries > to initialize that way? That sounds broken or is it just fine given > the fact we are anyway not planning to call into any of the efi services. > But what about memory maps, ACPI tables etc. Hi Vivek, My understanding on x86 side is not as clear as on ia64 side of kexec. From my reading of the code, second kernel seems to assume a regular BIOS. It searches through EBDA or upper memory region E0000h-FFFFFh to find RSDP, if an RSDP pointer was not passed to the second kernel. This works on my EFI machine which also implements a BIOS compatibility layer. I wonder how it works on pure EFI machines. Do pure EFI machines not implement, say EBDA? If yes, acpi_find_root_pointer() should fail tofind RSDP.As for memory map, all I can find are reference to e820 memory map which again assumes a BIOS but most EFI implementations I have come across implement a BIOS compatibility layer, so this will work still. I will look some more into this. -- Khalid
