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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