Re: Use PCI ROMs from EFI boot services

[Matthew Garrett]

On Wed, Dec 05, 2012 at 04:15:56PM -0800, Yinghai Lu wrote:

> at the same time we should export setup_data into /sys, so kexec could
> append this pointer to command of
> second kernel, just like kexec append acpi_rsdp.
> That should address DavidW's concern.

Why should the kernel export data to userspace just so that that data 
can be passed back into the kernel?

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