From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Leon Romanovsky Subject: Re: [QUESTION] Is an ib_sbft kernel module needed to be made? (For booting using SRP) Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2016 12:18:39 +0300 Message-ID: <20160719091838.GI20674@leon.nu> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="X0cz4bGbQuRbxrVl" Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-rdma-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: james harvey Cc: linux-rdma-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org --X0cz4bGbQuRbxrVl Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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. >=20 > 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 >=20 > But, I don't see anything that finds, reads, or uses it. So then then > remote drive is no longer seen. >=20 > I see iSCSI handles this problem through the kernel module iscsi_ibft > which gives a sysfs interface to iSCSI's BFT structure. >=20 > 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. >=20 > Is anyone else who has done kernel development interested in taking > that on, or is it something I should start working on? >=20 Is this ability needed? Do you have real life scenario for this? Thanks > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rdma" in > the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html --X0cz4bGbQuRbxrVl Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJXjfBuAAoJEORje4g2clin/pUP/2k3qsXzP62lJ2z7WgUX690u b70PYUAwu6Yk8aQYSfIFiIQiAK6qcgzUDOEloAYU7+aTGtc6J9lz0cBzv+ttVou7 +hrpqtAGjm65wnpCtyq+d6AfXxQI+PFM3vCdVGUj45Wym0LL2C+XWwmpXLRxm0nx hhtuexn3PLOUdbwzo+BSvVgq6VCaUO6albrzCtJMyA16Cgib0eOL0z0y1zMhZ/K/ pg2wGyTWZkinT6/USofNg2hCIyYDMpHpDzKDLNbXNxRfzc/vVj1o0ixCJt64Dj5c s4aT729bu1u4NRlmYRAtAUB+aR25apE0G8fO1JcwzyQBxFrzMZSIBbiHhY30D2TR klX3herFzZkN2DE0sdF8Kl36EFAMZei2dDSc+iVEap623cYjXsdjR1uswPGKGx3m ZKNR+nP9R9re0CTgHIOdwDlW8p6paSlnDaHHLA3OsnfYChwgwN1QGvyetcYr3QED LJvRBtZ6DGd5ZO1aJd5mneRVetRzNgWfM0wsTkmgP4mV7EDzGSDwVZo4VnasHC0j ED1sI/e36WkjdSz9fa49LST11UTAIX90BgvnoV34pyarxyUQe1UqcCrDCch4RSSc ALgGlYUTbPgZs3aKWpw9+os5RyJyalbJAnQFGVrQZ8yDZ8E5Q3GyPkiaFxZUbU+7 +ZvkwPAdePSpjRq0Jc6x =wCPV -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --X0cz4bGbQuRbxrVl-- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rdma" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html