Messages in this thread | | | From | Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <> | Subject | [PATCH] Update iBFT to 1.03 | Date | Fri, 9 Apr 2010 14:21:26 +0000 |
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This patch writen by Peter Jones and Mike Christie expands on the iBFT firmware driver to 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
Linux kernel has support for the iBFT 1.0 spec and this update to 1.03 adds three more things: - There is now a ACPI table either called 'iBFT' or 'IBFT' that should be parsed. - If running with UEFI, only look at the ACPI table. - If not found within ACPI tables, fall back to the old mechanism of scanning memory for the signature.
It has been tested with gPXE and also a real hardware (Mike, did I get that right?)
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