[PATCH 1/2 resend] kexec-tools: add noefi arch cmdline option
Simon Horman
horms at verge.net.au
Tue May 27 16:47:08 PDT 2014
On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 01:52:08PM +0800, Dave Young wrote:
> For kernel boot with efi=old_map or some quirked machines like SGI UV
> they use old ioremap instead of 1:1 mapping. But kexec efi support
> depends on the 1:1 mapping thus we need to switch to use the old way
>
> There's a kernel patch for exporting the efi flags so we can check the memory
> mapping method. But user may want to explictly disable efi boot for unknown
> reasons.
>
> So here add a new arch option '--noefi' for this case.
Thanks, I have applied this and the following patch.
I will now go ahead and make an rc release.
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