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 14:52, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 02:40:46PM +0000, David Vrabel wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> How are you planning to make kexec work under EFI?

I don't know at this time.

David

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