Re: [PATCH 00/14] OROM/EFI support for Intel SAS and AHCI controllers in IMSM

[NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>]

On Tue, 8 Mar 2011 15:20:20 +0000 "Labun, Marcin" <Marcin.Labun@intel.com>
wrote:

> >From 8851572a406e938f50466a98405b10529048e766 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Marcin Labun <marcin.labun@intel.com>
> Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2011 15:24:09 +0100
> Subject: [PATCH 00/14] OROM/EFI support for Intel SAS and AHCI controllers in IMSM
> 
> IMSM metadata supports retrieving RAID capabilities for:
> - Intel SAS controller with Legacy OROM
> - Intel SAS controller with EFI
> - Intel AHCI controller with Legacy OROM
> - AHCI controller with EFI
> IMSM Metadata handlers constrain RAID configurations to those supported EFI/OROM for Intel AHCI or SAS controller.

I have applied all of these - though with some little fixes so that
it compiled correctly after each commit.

I admit that I don't understand much of it so I didn't review it closely.
Hopefully internal review (e.g. from Dan) is sufficient.

Thanks,
NeilBrown


> 
> 
> Marcin Labun (11):
>   probe_roms: allow to probe expansion ROMs using vendor and device id.
>   Platform-intel: support for OROM SAS and AHCI controller
>   imsm: remove unused parameters in function attach_hba_to_super
>   imsm: detail_platform_imsm displays AHCI and SAS controller
>     information
>   imsm: do not publish OROM/EFI unsupported arrays
>   imsm: print-out error message when volume validation fails
>   imsm: add maximum number of disk validation in RAID array
>   imsm: verify that component disks are attached to the same type of
>     HBA
>   imsm: move code for retrieving HBA to a function
>   imsm: introduce SAS controller support in imsm metadata handler
>   platform_intel: support for OROM OEM capabilities
> 
> Przemyslaw Czarnowski (3):
>   update of imsm_orom structure
>   Some guid manipulation utilities has been added.
>   read platform capabilities from EFI
> 
>  platform-intel.c |  221 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
>  platform-intel.h |   39 ++++++-
>  probe_roms.c     |   29 ++++-
>  probe_roms.h     |    2 +-
>  super-intel.c    |  339 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------------
>  5 files changed, 488 insertions(+), 142 deletions(-)