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To: Konrad Rzeszutek <konrad@darnok.org>
cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       greg@kroah.com, darnok@68k.org, pjones@redhat.com, konradr@redhat.com,
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       arjan@infradead.org, michaelc@cs.wisc.edu,
       Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add iSCSI iBFT support (v0.4.5) 
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Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 13:11:33 -0600
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From: Doug Maxey <dwm@enoyolf.org>
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On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 14:04:51 EST, Konrad Rzeszutek wrote:
> > > +EXPORT_SYMBOL(find_ibft);
> >
> > Is this x86-specific?  Are suitable Kconfig dependencies in place?
> 
> Originally I had it to be x86-specific but was told that I should make it all 
> platforms since the IBFT is platform independent. Somebody can very well 
> insert a NIC with IBFT on a IA64 machine or PPC.
> 

I would beg to differ regarding the powerpc.  On powerpc, the bios is
invisible and ignored.  We have our own "special" way, via the device-tree
in procfs.

++doug

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