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From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Cc: Cong Wang <amwang@redhat.com>,
	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Takao Indoh <tindoh@redhat.com>,
	Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>,
	linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Patch] acpi: introduce "acpi_addr=" parameter for kdump
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2011 21:36:33 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m1lj06zc4u.fsf@fess.ebiederm.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.02.1103230026170.10549@x980> (Len Brown's message of "Wed, 23 Mar 2011 00:28:21 -0400 (EDT)")

Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org> writes:

> On Mon, 21 Mar 2011, Cong Wang wrote:
>
>> 于 2011年03月11日 00:26, Randy Dunlap 写道:
>> > On Thu, 10 Mar 2011 22:10:43 +0800 Amerigo Wang wrote:
>> > > +	acpi_addr=	[ACPI,EFI]
>> > > +			Pass the RSDP address to the kernel, mostly used
>> > > +			on machines running EFI runtime service to boot the
>> > > +			second kernel for kdump.
>> > > +
>> > 
>> > I think that "acpi_addr" is a bit too generic.  How about
>> > acpi_rsdp or acpi_root instead?
>> > 
>> 
>> Yup, I agree "acpi_rsdp" is better.
>
> This should also be [KEXEC], and the code should be #ifdef CONFIG_KEXEC
> so that sane people can exclude it from their kernels.

So far sane people don't use EFI on x86 so that is easy enough.

Eric

  reply	other threads:[~2011-03-23  4:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-03-10 14:10 [Patch] acpi: introduce "acpi_addr=" parameter for kdump Amerigo Wang
2011-03-10 14:39 ` Vivek Goyal
2011-03-10 15:59   ` Takao Indoh
2011-03-10 17:50   ` Eric W. Biederman
2011-03-10 18:50     ` Matthew Garrett
2011-03-21  6:40       ` Cong Wang
2011-03-21  8:05         ` Eric W. Biederman
2011-03-21 15:56           ` Vivek Goyal
2011-03-22  6:31             ` Cong Wang
2011-03-10 16:26 ` Randy Dunlap
2011-03-21  6:43   ` Cong Wang
2011-03-23  4:28     ` Len Brown
2011-03-23  4:36       ` Eric W. Biederman [this message]
2011-03-23 17:40         ` Matthew Garrett

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