From: Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek <konrad@darnok.org>,
Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, konradr@redhat.com,
konradr@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add iSCSI iBFT support.
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 13:12:24 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46FBE478.6040602@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46FBE30D.7010108@zytor.com>
H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> 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...?
Actually no. That /should/ be the correct answer, but none of the
hardware vendors actually provide the table via ACPI yet. Also, if they
did, the support for /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/* would be sufficient
instead of having this code *at all*.
--
Peter
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-27 17:14 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
2007-09-27 17:12 ` Peter Jones [this message]
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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