On Wed, 16 Oct, at 02:52:25PM, Luck, Tony wrote: > > Where by "May not function correctly" you mean "May crash the system"? > > I'm a little uneasy having this run by default if enabled, even if it's > > disabled by default in the config. > > There's also an "either/or" choice between using efi-capsule with pstore, and the > traditional kexec/kdump method for getting a memory dump from a crash. We > have to go through a reset to save the capsule - but we don't want a reset for > kexec. Perhaps we can pass the reset parameters through the kexec path to > the new kernel to make it do the right kind of reset ... but the value of the capsule > dump is minimal if kdump managed to dump everything. I admit that using kexec with the EFI capsule + pstore code is not something I'd considered. Though as you say, if you manage to jump to your crash kernel I'm not sure how much use the capsule would be. -- Matt Fleming, Intel Open Source Technology Center -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-efi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
