On Fri, 2008-03-28 at 14:48 -0700, akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > From: Konrad Rzeszutek <ketuzsezr@xxxxxxxxxx> > > Add /sysfs/firmware/ibft/[initiator|targetX|ethernetX] directories along with > text properties which export the the iSCSI Boot Firmware Table (iBFT) > structure. > > What is iSCSI Boot Firmware Table? It is a mechanism for the iSCSI tools to > extract from the machine NICs the iSCSI connection information so that they > can automagically mount the iSCSI share/target. Currently the iSCSI > information is hard-coded in the initrd. The /sysfs entries are read-only > one-name-and-value fields. > > The usual set of data exposed is: > > # for a in `find /sys/firmware/ibft/ -type f -print`; do echo -n "$a: "; cat $a; done > /sys/firmware/ibft/target0/target-name: iqn.2007.com.intel-sbx44:storage-10gb > /sys/firmware/ibft/target0/nic-assoc: 0 > /sys/firmware/ibft/target0/chap-type: 0 > /sys/firmware/ibft/target0/lun: 00000000 > /sys/firmware/ibft/target0/port: 3260 > /sys/firmware/ibft/target0/ip-addr: 192.168.79.116 > /sys/firmware/ibft/target0/flags: 3 > /sys/firmware/ibft/target0/index: 0 > /sys/firmware/ibft/ethernet0/mac: 00:11:25:9d:8b:01 > /sys/firmware/ibft/ethernet0/vlan: 0 > /sys/firmware/ibft/ethernet0/gateway: 192.168.79.254 > /sys/firmware/ibft/ethernet0/origin: 0 > /sys/firmware/ibft/ethernet0/subnet-mask: 255.255.252.0 > /sys/firmware/ibft/ethernet0/ip-addr: 192.168.77.41 > /sys/firmware/ibft/ethernet0/flags: 7 > /sys/firmware/ibft/ethernet0/index: 0 > /sys/firmware/ibft/initiator/initiator-name: iqn.2007-07.com:konrad.initiator > /sys/firmware/ibft/initiator/flags: 3 > /sys/firmware/ibft/initiator/index: 0 > > For full details of the IBFT structure please take a look at: > ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/systems/support/system_x_pdf/ibm_iscsi_boot_firmware_table_v1.02.pdf > > [akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx: fix build] > Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek <konradr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Mike Christie <michaelc@xxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Peter Jones <pjones@xxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-ibft | 23 > arch/x86/kernel/setup_32.c | 3 > arch/x86/kernel/setup_64.c | 4 > drivers/firmware/Kconfig | 20 > drivers/firmware/Makefile | 2 > drivers/firmware/iscsi_ibft.c | 982 +++++++++++++++++++++++++ > drivers/firmware/iscsi_ibft_find.c | 84 ++ > include/linux/iscsi_ibft.h | 50 + > 8 files changed, 1168 insertions(+) Um, this has no piece in the SCSI tree or any of our allied files ... it's basically partly in arch/x86 and partly in drivers/firmware. It's job is to export parameters from a rom bios. I think it belongs to Greg ... James -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
