From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754413Ab3K0IS5 (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Nov 2013 03:18:57 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:55739 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751012Ab3K0ISx (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Nov 2013 03:18:53 -0500 Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2013 16:17:53 +0800 From: Dave Young To: Matt Fleming Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-efi@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org, mjg59@srcf.ucam.org, hpa@zytor.com, James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com, vgoyal@redhat.com, ebiederm@xmission.com, horms@verge.net.au, kexec@lists.infradead.org, bp@alien8.de, greg@kroah.com, toshi.kani@hp.com Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 06/12] efi: export efi runtime memory mapping to sysfs Message-ID: <20131127081753.GA19809@dhcp-16-126.nay.redhat.com> References: <1385445477-9665-1-git-send-email-dyoung@redhat.com> <1385445477-9665-7-git-send-email-dyoung@redhat.com> <20131126193016.GA18170@console-pimps.org> <20131127030706.GB11852@dhcp-16-126.nay.redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20131127030706.GB11852@dhcp-16-126.nay.redhat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 11/27/13 at 11:07am, Dave Young wrote: > > > It will not work for efi 32bit. Only x86_64 currently. > > > > Actually, exporting the tables does work for 32-bit, right? It's just > > that kexec doesn't work for 32-bit EFI? > > It does not make sense to export them for 32-bit because we do not > support kexec efi on 32-bit. Will change the description to below: > > "kexec efi boot on 32-bit is not supported so I only export the tables > for 64-bit efi system." I thought about only enabling it for x86_64 and efi is in .config. Rethinking about this, since exporting code will also work for 32-bit so I will remove the lines you mentioned. Thanks Dave