Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751366Ab0HBOiH (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Aug 2010 10:38:07 -0400 Received: from hera.kernel.org ([140.211.167.34]:46994 "EHLO hera.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751077Ab0HBOiE (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Aug 2010 10:38:04 -0400 Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2010 14:36:42 +0000 From: Konrad Rzeszutek To: torvalds@linux-foundation.org Cc: James.Bottomley@suse.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, pjones@redhat.com, lenb@kernel.org, michaelc@cs.wisc.edu Subject: [GIT PULL] iBFT features for v2.6.36 Message-ID: <20100802143642.GA15428@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]); Mon, 02 Aug 2010 14:36:42 +0000 (UTC) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2063 Lines: 52 Hi Linus, This pull requests consists of 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. These patches have been through a few rounds of review and have been in linux-next for two months. James Bottomley is using this tree in his branch for the BNX2 driver, so please merge these patches before his. It's all at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/ibft-2.6.git for-linus 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(-) 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/