Re: [QUESTION] Is an ib_sbft kernel module needed to be made? (For booting using SRP)

[Leon Romanovsky <leon-DgEjT+Ai2ygdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org>]

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On Mon, Jul 18, 2016 at 10:13:15PM -0400, james harvey wrote:
> I'm looking to boot using SRP.  I've spent a lot of time looking, and
> am not seeing that anyone has actually done this.  Really surprises
> me, actually.
> 
> iPXE is able to make the SRP connection, load the kernel and
> initramfs, and leaves behind a SRP boot firmware table as described at
> http://ipxe.org/srp/sbft
> 
> But, I don't see anything that finds, reads, or uses it.  So then then
> remote drive is no longer seen.
> 
> I see iSCSI handles this problem through the kernel module iscsi_ibft
> which gives a sysfs interface to iSCSI's BFT structure.
> 
> I'm somewhat interested in developing the ib_sbft kernel module, if
> I'm not missing an existing alternative to allow SRP booting.  I
> expect I could work from the iscsi_ibft kernel module source to be
> able to accomplish this, making the necessary changes based on the
> sBFT documentation and iPXE's sBFT-creating source.
> 
> Is anyone else who has done kernel development interested in taking
> that on, or is it something I should start working on?
> 

Is this ability needed? Do you have real life scenario for this?

Thanks

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