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    SubjectRe: Use PCI ROMs from EFI boot services
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    On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 4:18 PM, Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org> wrote:
    > On Wed, Dec 05, 2012 at 04:15:56PM -0800, Yinghai Lu wrote:
    >
    >> at the same time we should export setup_data into /sys, so kexec could
    >> append this pointer to command of
    >> second kernel, just like kexec append acpi_rsdp.
    >> That should address DavidW's concern.
    >
    > Why should the kernel export data to userspace just so that that data
    > can be passed back into the kernel?

    then how the kexeced get those info?

    first kernel already reserved those info as E820_RESERVED_KERN.
    and those info are for bootloader's of first kernel.


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