Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 6 Jun 2013 22:03:43 +0100 | From | Matthew Garrett <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 3/4] x86, efi: Add an efi= kernel command line parameter |
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On Thu, Jun 06, 2013 at 11:02:18PM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote: > On Thu, Jun 06, 2013 at 09:50:57PM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: > > What do you mean by "call them"? I don't think we ever want to call by > > physical address, other than maybe in the kexec case. The only reason > > we really care about the physical addresses being mapped 1:1 is that > > some pointers may not have been updated. > > I want to be able to call the runtime services in the kexec kernel. > Which means, the kexec kernel would simply map the runtime code/data > regions 1:1 and then use the physical addresses to call the runtime > services. > > Question is: would that work even if SetVirtualAddressMap has already > run in the original kernel and with virtual addresses?
No. You'll need to have an option for that case.
-- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
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