On 07/29/25 at 11:21am, Brian Mak wrote: > The kexec_file_load syscall on x86 currently does not support passing > a device tree blob to the new kernel. > > To add support for this, we copy the behavior of ARM64 and PowerPC and > copy the current boot's device tree blob for use in the new kernel. We > do this on x86 by passing the device tree blob as a setup_data entry in > accordance with the x86 boot protocol.
I see how, but no why. Why do we need to add DTB for x86?
