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Re: [Xen-ia64-devel] [patch 06/14] Kexec: Save the MADT ACPI tables so t

To: Simon Horman <horms@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-ia64-devel] [patch 06/14] Kexec: Save the MADT ACPI tables so that they can be restored
From: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@xxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2007 12:21:24 -0600
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On Wed, 2007-09-12 at 17:08 +0900, Simon Horman wrote:
> plain text document attachment (ia64-xen-kexec-save-acpi.patch)
> Xen mangles the MADT tables on boot up. But the pristine tables are needed
> on kexec. So save the tables and restore them on kexec.
> 
> Note that this saves all the tables. A trimmed down save could
> be done if prefered.

   This is touching common code, so probably ought to be approved
through xen-devel.  It seems reasonable though.  Why doesn't x86 need
something like this?  Thanks,

        Alex

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Alex Williamson                             HP Open Source & Linux Org.


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