[patch 2/4] remove extra acpi_rsdp command line for efi

[Matthew Garrett]

On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 06:45:32PM +0800, Dave Young wrote:
> On 10/28/13 at 10:39am, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 06:34:12PM +0800, Dave Young wrote:
> > > On 10/28/13 at 10:12am, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > > > Right, but previously acpi_rsdp was passed automatically and now it 
> > > > won't be?
> > > 
> > > Yes, it was. I'm removing them in kexec-tools patches for efi runtime support.
> > 
> > If I upgrade kexec-tools and try to launch an old kernel, I now need to 
> > add an extra parameter?
> 
> Yes, it should work by passing the acpi_rsdp= via --append

Yes, that's my point. You're breaking old configurations by requiring 
the user to pass an additional argument.

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