Re: Use PCI ROMs from EFI boot services

From: Yinghai Lu
Date: Wed Dec 05 2012 - 19:30:17 EST


On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 4:21 PM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 12/05/2012 04:18 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote:

> Because it also needs to modify it. Right now kexec userspace
> synthesizes struct boot_params from scratch, and does so incorrectly to
> boot. I think we have setup_data exported via debugfs but IIRC we never
> got a strong enough use case for sysfs.

maybe we could try to export setup_data pointer only /sys, and that
could be safe enough.
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