I'm looking to boot using SRP. I've spent a lot of time looking, and am not seeing that anyone has actually done this. Really surprises me, actually. iPXE is able to make the SRP connection, load the kernel and initramfs, and leaves behind a SRP boot firmware table as described at http://ipxe.org/srp/sbft But, I don't see anything that finds, reads, or uses it. So then then remote drive is no longer seen. I see iSCSI handles this problem through the kernel module iscsi_ibft which gives a sysfs interface to iSCSI's BFT structure. I'm somewhat interested in developing the ib_sbft kernel module, if I'm not missing an existing alternative to allow SRP booting. I expect I could work from the iscsi_ibft kernel module source to be able to accomplish this, making the necessary changes based on the sBFT documentation and iPXE's sBFT-creating source. Is anyone else who has done kernel development interested in taking that on, or is it something I should start working on? If I had it working on my system, is there someone who would be willing to review/test/revise it to sign it to be pulled by Linus? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rdma" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
