[PATCH 0/7] arm64 kexec kernel patches V3

Vivek Goyal vgoyal at redhat.com
Tue Oct 7 06:40:06 PDT 2014


On Fri, Oct 03, 2014 at 02:16:11PM -0700, Geoff Levand wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Wed, 2014-10-01 at 11:19 -0400, Vivek Goyal wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 12:23:26AM +0000, Geoff Levand wrote:
> > > Hi All,
> > > 
> > > This series adds the core support for kexec re-boots on arm64.  I have tested
> > > with the ARM VE fast model using various kernel config options for both the
> > > first and second stage kernels.
> > 
> > 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.

[CC Dave Young ]

I have not looked at the user space patches but are you preparing efi
setup data and passing all the runtime map information to second kernel.

I am hoping on arm64 we have the CONFIG_EFI_RUNTIME_MAP=y and it works
well.

Thanks
Vivek



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