Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 27 Nov 2013 15:27:32 +0100 | From | Borislav Petkov <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v4 09/12] x86: add xloadflags bit for efi runtime support on kexec |
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On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 01:57:54PM +0800, Dave Young wrote: > Old kexec-tools can not load new kernel. The reason is previously kexec-tools
The reason is, kexec-tools ... previously, thus efi failed to initialize ...
> do not fill efi_info in x86 setup header thus efi init fail and switch > to noefi boot. In new kexec-tools it will by default fill efi_info and > pass other efi required infomation to 2nd kernel so kexec kernel efi > initialization will success finally.
succeed
> > To prevent from breaking userspace, add a new xloadflags bit so kexec-tools > will check the flag and switch to old logic. > > changelog: > Matt: +&& defined(CONFIG_KEXEC) > HPA: document the flag. > > Signed-off-by: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
Other than that:
Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
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