[PATCH 0/7] arm64 kexec kernel patches V3

Geoff Levand geoff at infradead.org
Tue Oct 7 11:28:59 PDT 2014


On Tue, 2014-10-07 at 16:22 +0100, Mark Rutland wrote:
> Hi Geoff,
> 
> > > Does this patch series work with kexec on UEFI machines?
> > 
> > I have not done much more than some simple re-boot tests using the
> > base model (FVP_Base_AEMv8A-AEMv8A) and the Linaro 14.08 efi build,
> > but yes, it should work.
> 
> Where you booting the kernel as an UEFI application, or were you using the
> Linux loader? The latter arguably isn't a UEFI boot because the kernel doesn't
> know of or have access to UEFI (and arguably said laoder shouldn't even be
> there).

I used the Linux loader. 

> I've just had a go on Juno, but I wasn't able to get the tool to work.

No, I wouldn't think it would.  Proper UEFI re-boot is
still todo.

-Geoff






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