On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 09:41:37AM +0900, Horms wrote: > On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 01:48:56PM -0800, Jay Lan wrote: > > Horms wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I am resending this patch, which builds on the patch sent earlier > > > in this thread to allow physical mode SAL/EFI to work. > > > > > > > Hi Horms, > > > > Do you plan to introduce this new option as a default to kexec in non- > > Linux<->Xen kexec situations? We are concerned because physical mode > > SAL/EFI calls do not currently work on SN platform. > > So far the only way that I know to make Linux<->Xen and Xen<->Linux > Linux kexec/kdump transitions work is to use this phys_efi technique. > I realise that it doesn't work on SN. But it does seem to me that > a solution that works on some platforms (e.g. Tiger) is better than > no solution at all. At some point in time, we may want to support XEN on our platform. Will we need to support phys_efi to make that work? If I understand your comment, phys_efi will never be required to kexec a kdump kernel from linux. Right?? -- jack - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ia64" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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