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
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