Re: Use PCI ROMs from EFI boot services

From: Matthew Garrett
Date: Fri Aug 24 2012 - 08:53:09 EST


On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 10:30:01AM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-08-23 at 12:36 -0400, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > V3 just fixes all the casting issues and incorporates David's change in
> > search ordering.
>
> I appreciate there are other issues with kexec under EFI, but let's not
> make it worse. What is the plan for making this work *after* kexec? Do
> these blobs get passed from the old kernel to the new? Does that work
> already?

kexec would presumably need to reconstruct the setup_data from the PCI
objects.

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