I'm thinking no. I'm developing a new ib_sbft kernel module, to provide a sysfs interface to the InfiniBand SRP Boot Firmware Table. It's InfiniBand/SRP's version of the existing iscsi_ibft kernel module. The existing iSCSI iBFT is mentioned in the ACPI 3.0b+ specs. I believe there are some instances when the iBFT is added to the RSDT/XSDT. The iBFT is part of actbl2.h. Unlike the iBFT, the InfiniBand SRP sBFT is not mentioned in any of the ACPI specs. More importantly, the only implementations of the sBFT that I'm aware of are iPXE and its predecessors/forks. I'm unaware of any implementations that add it to the RSDT/XSDT. The iPXE/etc sBFT tables follow the specification at http://etherboot.org/wiki/srp/sbft which mentions the sBFT follows the structure of an ACPI table. But the specification just says to scan memory for it, nothing to do with the RSDT/XSDT. I think they just sort of mentioned this while modeling after the existing iBFT. I'm thinking given the current limited state of the sBFT implementations, it may as well be left out of actbl2.h until/unless an implementation in the future adds it to the RSDT/XSDT. I'm only vaguely familiar with ACPI, so I wanted to double check. Please let me know if this is how the ACPI team would like it to be. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
