[ANNOUNCE] kexec-tools 2.0.7

[Simon Horman]

On Mon, Jun 09, 2014 at 10:15:37AM +0800, Dave Young wrote:
> On 06/09/14 at 10:01am, Simon Horman wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I am happy to announce the release of kexec-tools 2.0.7.
> 
> Simon,
> 
> Thanks for the new release.
> 
> FYI, the efi kernel patch has been merged into 3.15 kernel:

Great, thanks for letting me know.

> commit a3530e8fe980f756b823d451fe9243f26db95fa5
> Author: Dave Young <dyoung at redhat.com>
> Date:   Fri May 30 11:20:10 2014 +0800
> 
>     x86/efi: Do not export efi runtime map in case old map
>     
>     For ioremapped efi memory aka old_map the virt addresses are not persistant
>     across kexec reboot. kexec-tools will read the runtime maps from sysfs then
>     pass them to 2nd kernel and assuming kexec efi boot is ok. This will cause
>     kexec boot failure.
>     
>     To address this issue do not export runtime maps in case efi old_map so
>     userspace can use no efi boot instead.
>     
>     Signed-off-by: Dave Young <dyoung at redhat.com>
>     Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <bp at suse.de>
>     Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal at redhat.com>
>     Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming at intel.com>