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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Konrad Rzeszutek <konrad@darnok.org>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, pjones@redhat.com,
	konradr@redhat.com, konradr@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add iSCSI iBFT support.
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 10:06:21 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <46FBE30D.7010108@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200709262052.44845.konrad@darnok.org>

Konrad Rzeszutek wrote:
>>> +config ISCSI_IBFT
>>> +	tristate "iSCSI Boot Firmware Table Attributes"
>>> +	depends on X86
>> why only on X86?
> 
> PowerPC exports this data via the OpenFirmware so it already shows in 
> the /sysfs entries. I was thinking to combine those sysfs entries under this 
> code, but that is something in the future.
> 
> In regards to all other platforms, I figured I would only make it supported 
> under platforms that have been tested. Is there anything that stops this from 
> working for example of IA64? Well no. The hardware that supports the iBFT is 
> either in the BIOS or in NICs - so the SGI or HP boxes _should_ work, however 
> I am not comfortable to make it supported unless I've tested it.
> 

It should, presumably, depend on ACPI, rather than on X86...?

	-hpa


  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-09-27 17:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-09-26 18:46 [PATCH] Add iSCSI iBFT support Konrad Rzeszutek
2007-09-26 19:37 ` roel
2007-09-26 21:10 ` Greg KH
2007-09-27  0:08   ` Konrad Rzeszutek
2007-09-27  2:04     ` Greg KH
2007-09-26 21:13 ` Randy Dunlap
2007-09-27  0:16   ` Konrad Rzeszutek
2007-09-26 21:29 ` Randy Dunlap
2007-09-27  0:52   ` Konrad Rzeszutek
     [not found]     ` <14e4363b0709261817t5f0b1922m99c24549ce316de8@mail.gmail.com>
2007-09-27  4:00       ` Randy Dunlap
2007-09-27  4:29     ` Randy Dunlap
2007-09-27 17:06     ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2007-09-27 17:12       ` Peter Jones
2007-09-27 17:18         ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-09-27 17:51           ` Peter Jones
2007-09-27 20:50             ` Len Brown

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