Re: [PATCH] export efi.flags to sysfs

[Fleming, Matt]

On 28 May 2014 15:51, Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 10:09:35AM +0800, Dave Young wrote:
>
> [..]
>> > I've only vaguely been following along with the other thread, so please
>> > summarise everything again in your patch. Particularly, I need answers
>> > to the following questions,
>> >
>> >  - Are you trying to fix a kexec/kdump regression?
>>
>> Somehow it is a regression.
>
> Well, it is a *regression*. Previously kdump would work with
> SGI UV machines as it used "noefi". Now kexec by default thinks that
> efi is enabled and 1:1 mappings are in place and that does not work
> with SGI UV machines.

So, if someone boots an SGI UV machine with the "noefi" kernel command
line parameter, the kernel still creates
/sys/firmware/efi/runtime-map/ ? Why does kexec/kdump think a kernel
booted with "noefi" supports EFI?

Or are we talking about a different "noefi" parameter?
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