Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Sat, 16 Jul 2011 17:28:06 +0100 | | From | Matthew Garrett <> | | Subject | Re: [RFC][PATCH] Replace a function call chain of kmsg_dump(KMSG_DUMP_KEXEC) with static function calls |
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On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 09:16:06AM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> What is going on with EFI support? We are still making efi calls in > virtual mode, and we don't have the one unified identity mapped physical > page table that hpa and I think others were working a while back. Even > if because of bugs we need to transition EFI to virtual mode we can > still set physical to virtual so we don't have to deal with the nonsense.
No, we can't. It doesn't work.
> Can we please make our EFI support ask the minimal from EFI before > adding lots more to it?
No.
> Am I wrong in thinking that the core motivation behind this patch is > that our EFI support sucks and thus kdump on EFI does not work on some > platforms?
Yes, you are.
-- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
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