On 04/15/2013 12:48 PM, Thomas Renninger wrote: > On Monday, April 15, 2013 05:20:24 AM H. Peter Anvin wrote: >> Except that is wrong. The kernel can receive more than 128 e820 entries, >> they just have to be passed via a different mechanism. > > Would it make sense to pass the tables via efi_map by moving up > efi_map parsing to the beginning of efi init in arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c? > > And in kexec pass the efi signature, efi map pointers, add add_efi_memmap > param (and possibly some more?)? > Then there would be no limit at all anymore. > There is no limit... that's what I'm telling you. kexec should certainly pass the EFI information, otherwise the second kernel can't invoke EFI runtime calls at all. Therein lies a whole bit of pain. -hpa -- H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf.
