From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.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 10:18:10 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46FBE5D2.6090306@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46FBE478.6040602@redhat.com>
Peter Jones wrote:
>>
>> 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*.
>
Is there anything other than the discovery which is braindead about
iBFT? If so, can the tables code be taught to look for this additional
table instead of having all its own mechanism?
(Sorry - I don't really know the ACPI code all that well.)
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-27 17:24 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
2007-09-27 17:18 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2007-09-27 17:51 ` Peter Jones
2007-09-27 20:50 ` Len Brown
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