From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad@kernel.org>,
Konrad Rzeszutek <konrad@hera.kernel.org>,
torvalds@linux-foundation.org, James.Bottomley@suse.de,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, lenb@kernel.org,
michaelc@cs.wisc.edu, mcb30@ipxe.org
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] iBFT features for v2.6.36
Date: Tue, 03 Aug 2010 16:23:19 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C58A4E7.4030800@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C582918.5080602@redhat.com>
On 08/03/2010 07:35 AM, Peter Jones wrote:
>
> The current iBFT specification and the current code (this push) includes the
> ability to specify the location of the iBFT table using the standard ACPI table
> mechanism, which is required on UEFI machines supporting iBFT, and which I
> would encourage non-UEFI machines to also use where possible. Obviously some
> systems, especially BIOS-based machines doing iSCSI boot on expansion cards,
> have difficulty with this, so we're not planning on de-supporting the old
> memory scanning method.
>
Not just expansion cards, but also post-INT19 software solutions.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-08-03 23:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-08-02 14:36 [GIT PULL] iBFT features for v2.6.36 Konrad Rzeszutek
2010-08-02 18:22 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-08-02 19:52 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2010-08-02 20:26 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-08-03 1:08 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2010-08-03 2:29 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-08-03 12:56 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2010-08-03 14:35 ` Peter Jones
2010-08-03 23:23 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2010-08-04 13:38 ` [GIT PULL] iBFT features for v2.6.36 .. Question about LinuxCon Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2010-08-04 13:47 ` James Bottomley
2010-08-04 15:39 ` Linus Torvalds
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