Re: [Xen-devel] Is: kexec & EFI Was: Re: EFI GetNextVariableName crashes when running under Xen, but not under Linux. efi-rs=0 works. No memmap issues

[David Vrabel <david.vrabel@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 30/01/15 14:17, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> 
> <blinks> kexec is OS agnostic?

Yes.

Extra information to be passed to (e.g., a Linux kernel being kexec'd)
can be supplied in an additional segment and marshalled into a suitable
format/location for the exec'd kernel by purgatory (or similar).

There shouldn't be a need to extend the hypervisor ABI for this.

David


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