SetVirtualAddressMap() on Tiano EFI firmware

Lombard, David N dnlombar at ichips.intel.com
Thu Sep 11 17:59:54 EDT 2008


On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 01:23:58PM -0700, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> Has kexec been tested on x86 with EFI firmware?
> 
> I'm testing it on ia64 with Tiano-based EFI firmware, and I
> tripped over an issue with SetVirtualAddressMap().  I would
> expect a similar problem to happen on x86, but I don't see
> any code to deal with it.

Hmmm.  I run on 32- and 64-bit kernels on a 32-bit IA EFI, and
haven't seen this problem, including chains of kexec invocations.

I'll take a closer look at what's going on on my systems.

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David N. Lombard, Intel, Irvine, CA
I do not speak for Intel Corporation; all comments are strictly my own.



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