Re: EFI runtime and kexec

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Just commenting on this one for now, the rest tomorrow cuz I'm half
asleep.

On Fri, Mar 01, 2013 at 11:30:25PM +0000, David Woodhouse wrote:
> The other option, for the long term, is to fix the damn firmware to
> allow SetVirtualAddressMap to be called more than once. It was stupid
> for it to be a one-time call anyway.

Now this would be the cleanest solution. If we can do that, we can then
simply call efi_enter_virtual_mode() in the kexec'd kernel without
the need to pass any options to it. Actually, the kexec'd kernel can
probably run the same efi code as the papa kernel.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

Sent from a fat crate under my desk. Formatting is fine.
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