Re: [PATCH] Add iSCSI iBFT support.

[Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.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
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