[patch 0/7 v2] kexec kernel efi runtime support

Dave Young dyoung at redhat.com
Sun Nov 10 21:13:56 EST 2013


On 11/08/13 at 09:01pm, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> On 11/08/2013 07:57 PM, Dave Young wrote:
> > 
> > Hmm, if CONFIG_DEBUG_BOOT_PARAMS is not set, then kexec-tools should
> > fail getting efi_info, so I will fix kexec-tools patch about this.
> > 
> > Also CONFIG_EFI_RUNTIME_MAP should select CONFIG_DEBUG_BOOT_PARAMS.
> > In future will try to move the boot params data out of debugfs. 
> > 
> 
> Honestly, if we need debugfs to get actual functionality, it shouldn't
> be in sploit^Wdebugfs...
> 

Huang Ying <ying.huang at intel.com> created the debugfs file for boot_params.
His first version patch tried sysfs, but sysfs is not designed for such
binary blobs so finally it go to debugfs.

Any idea for this is welcome, till now I have no better idea for such kind
of data. We should have another *fs instead of using debugfs.

Thanks
Dave



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