On Fri, 2013-11-29 at 17:14 +0800, Dave Young wrote: > On 11/27/13 at 03:07pm, Borislav Petkov wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 01:57:52PM +0800, Dave Young wrote: > > > Add a new setup_data type SETUP_EFI for kexec use. > > > Passing the saved fw_vendor, runtime, config tables and > > > efi runtime mappings. > > > > > > When entering virtual mode, directly mapping the efi > > > runtime ragions which we passed in previously. And skip > > > the step to call SetVirtualAddressMap. > > > > > > Specially for HP z420 workstation it need another variable > > > saving, > > > > Why the special handling? Does that mean, this is going to be the case > > for other HP UEFI implementations too? > > I have only one HP machine for testing, Maybe Toshi can help to verify > on other machines. Just comment out the function efi_reuse_config to see > if kexec kernel panic. My system (HP prototype server) did not need the special handling in efi_reuse_config(). I will check with firmware team to get more information on this. Thanks, -Toshi
