Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 22 Jun 2007 15:57:08 -0700 | From | Yinghai Lu <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] x86-64: disable the GART before allocate aperture |
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Alan Cox wrote:
> Don't disable it, just don't touch it or any of its mappings. Leave it > *alone*, and use swiotlb. That'll maximise the ability to recover stuff > from the kexec kernel (since for one you may want to dump the gart when a > 3d app goes kerblam)
How about LinuxBIOS + Kernel ===> Final kernel path? someday EFI(PEI) + Kernel ===> Final kernel path need that too.
or the normal kexec path still could have clean shutdown.
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