Re: [PATCH 5/5] x86_64 EFI support -v3: EFI document

[H. Peter Anvin]

Andi Kleen wrote:
> 
> Ah i didn't realize this. Ok then kexec is also quite broken.
> Somehow this must have been missed this fundamental flaw when this code was 
> reviewed.
> 

It wasn't missed.  It was given the "there is no other way" defence, and
somehow that was considered sufficient.

Now, one could argue that kexec can just pass the boot_params from the
previous kernel boot, except there is no way to read them out, and so
it's not how it actually works.

	-hpa
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