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| author | Dave Young | 2013-12-20 18:02:20 +0800 |
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| committer | Matt Fleming | 2013-12-29 13:09:06 +0000 |
| commit | 456a29ddada79198c5965300e04103c40c481f62 (patch) | |
| tree | 3efa843160c0827cb165dbdf8c3b18c05ec98a7c /Documentation/x86 | |
| parent | 1fec0533693cd74f2d1a46edd29449cfee429df0 (diff) | |
x86: Add xloadflags bit for EFI runtime support on kexec
Old kexec-tools can not load new kernels. The reason is kexec-tools does
not fill efi_info in x86 setup header previously, thus EFI failed to
initialize. In new kexec-tools it will by default to fill efi_info and
pass other EFI required infomation to 2nd kernel so kexec kernel EFI
initialization can succeed finally.
To prevent from breaking userspace, add a new xloadflags bit so
kexec-tools can check the flag and switch to old logic.
Signed-off-by: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Tested-by: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/x86')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/x86/boot.txt | 3 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/x86/boot.txt b/Documentation/x86/boot.txt index f4f268c2b826..cb81741d3b0b 100644 --- a/Documentation/x86/boot.txt +++ b/Documentation/x86/boot.txt @@ -608,6 +608,9 @@ Protocol: 2.12+ - If 1, the kernel supports the 64-bit EFI handoff entry point given at handover_offset + 0x200. + Bit 4 (read): XLF_EFI_KEXEC + - If 1, the kernel supports kexec EFI boot with EFI runtime support. + Field name: cmdline_size Type: read Offset/size: 0x238/4 |