[PATCH v4 07/12] efi: passing kexec necessary efi data via setup_data

Borislav Petkov bp at alien8.de
Thu Dec 5 06:51:24 EST 2013


On Thu, Dec 05, 2013 at 09:56:15AM +0800, Dave Young wrote:
> > The z420 firmware is based on some UEFI core that may be used by other
> > vendors as well.  Since this handling is totally harmless (just
> > redundant), I'd suggest not to have a platform check on this handling.
> 
> I have same worry as well, so I agree with you.

Btw, why does kexec need the ->smbios table at all? I see it being
passed in efi_setup_data.

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    Boris.

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