Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932592Ab0FBPQX (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Jun 2010 11:16:23 -0400 Received: from hera.kernel.org ([140.211.167.34]:58274 "EHLO hera.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932563Ab0FBPQW (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Jun 2010 11:16:22 -0400 Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2010 15:15:52 +0000 From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk To: torvalds@linux-foundation.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, pjones@redhat.com, lenb@kernel.org, michaelc@cs.wisc.edu Subject: [GIT PULL] iBFT features for 2.6.35-rc1 Message-ID: <20100602151552.GA18899@hera.kernel.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.19 (2009-01-05) X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.3 (hera.kernel.org [127.0.0.1]); Wed, 02 Jun 2010 15:15:53 +0000 (UTC) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2228 Lines: 55 Hi Linus, Please pull: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/ibft-2.6.git for-linus Hopefully I am not too late with a git request for these features. This pull requests consists of new features to the iBFT* driver. Specifically: - support v1.03 of the spec. The spec in question is available at: ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/systems/support/bladecenter/iscsi_boot_firmware_table_v1.03.pdf - separate the iBFT parsing from the SysFS interface. Paves the road for the iSCSI hardware NICs to use the SysFS format for a unified look&feel. These patches have been through a few rounds of review and have been in linux-next for weeks now. Thanks, Konrad Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk (1): ibft: For UEFI machines actually do scan ACPI for iBFT. Mike Christie (2): ibft: separate ibft parsing from sysfs interface ibft: convert iscsi_ibft module to iscsi boot lib Peter Jones (2): ibft: Update iBFT handling for v1.03 of the spec. ibft: Use IBFT_SIGN instead of open-coding the search string. drivers/firmware/Kconfig | 9 + drivers/firmware/Makefile | 1 + drivers/firmware/iscsi_boot_sysfs.c | 481 +++++++++++++++++++++++ drivers/firmware/iscsi_ibft.c | 726 +++++++++++++---------------------- drivers/firmware/iscsi_ibft_find.c | 56 +++- include/linux/iscsi_boot_sysfs.h | 123 ++++++ include/linux/iscsi_ibft.h | 12 +- 7 files changed, 924 insertions(+), 484 deletions(-) create mode 100644 drivers/firmware/iscsi_boot_sysfs.c create mode 100644 include/linux/iscsi_boot_sysfs.h * What is iBFT? The iBFT is an equivalent to the Boot Flag, except that its geared towards iSCSI and hence requires much more information (such as the IP of target, passwords, which device to login, etc). iBFT is a data structure populated by the BIOS or the NIC to contain this so that the OS can read it and login to the iSCSI and present the boot device to the initrd for mounting / FS. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/