Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 28 Jan 2008 11:35:37 -0800 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Add iSCSI iBFT support (v0.4.5) |
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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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