On Wed, Jan 16, 2019 at 03:08:42PM +0800, Kairui Song wrote:
> I didn't see a way to reuse things in that patch series, situation is
> different, in that patch it needs to get RSDP in very early boot stage
> so it did everything from scratch, in this patch kexec_file_load need
> to get RSDP too, but everything is well setup so things are a lot
> easier, just read from current boot_prams, efi and fallback to
> acpi_find_root_pointer should be good.
No no. Early code should find out that venerable RSDP thing once and
will save it somewhere for further use. No gazillion parsings of it.
Just once and share it with the rest of the code that needs it.
--
Regards/Gruss,
Boris.
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