On 09.10.2019 13:00, Marek Marczykowski-Górecki wrote: > On Wed, Oct 09, 2019 at 12:50:09PM +0200, Jan Beulich wrote: >> On 09.10.2019 12:31, Marek Marczykowski-Górecki wrote: >>> BTW How runtime services work after kexec? I don't see EFI handles >>> handed over kexec, are they somehow re-discovered? >> >> What EFI handles are you talking about? For runtime services >> what a consumer needs is a table pointer, which is a field >> in the system table, which in turn is an argument passed to >> the EFI application's entry point. > > Yes, I'm talking about those pointers (system table specifically). > >> I didn't think there are >> provisions in the spec for either of these pointers being NULL. > > But I don't see kexec using EFI application entry point. Am I missing > something?
Can we stop thinking about a Linux -> Xen transition on this thread please? It only serves to confuse matters imo. Kexec _is_ different, and if anyone wants to get that transition working, then they'll have to properly investigate what it takes. Here we're concerned only about not breaking kexec-ing _from_ Xen. Jan _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.xenproject.org/mailman/listinfo/xen-devel
