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SubjectRe: [PATCH] Add iSCSI iBFT support (v0.4.5)
Doug Maxey wrote:
> 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.
>

iBFT is not platform-independent; it only makes sense on platforms with
ACPI (and even then, just barely; ACPI is a poor fit for it and it was
probably "integrated" with ACPI for political reasons.)

-hpa


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