[PATCH 3/4] arm: Add [U]EFI runtime services support

Borislav Petkov bp at alien8.de
Wed Jun 26 10:15:28 EDT 2013


On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 02:54:17PM +0100, Matt Fleming wrote:
> On Wed, 26 Jun, at 02:46:09PM, Grant Likely wrote:
> > Eventually we'll need to look at how this interacts with kexec. A
> > kexec'd kernel will need to use the mapping already chosen by a
> > previous kernel, but that's an issue for another patch series.
> 
> FYI, this is exactly what Borislav has been tackling on x86 recently. It
> would be nice if we could find one scheme that suits everyone.

Is this arm 32 or 64-bit? Because we haven't talked about 32-bit on x86
either. From skimming over the code, I'm not sure the same top-down
allocation and 1:1 mapping would work there. But I haven't looked hard
yet so I dunno.

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    Boris.

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