On Wed, May 07, 2014 at 07:12:31PM +0000, James Bottomley wrote: > On Wed, 2014-05-07 at 09:47 -0400, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote: > > On Wed, May 07, 2014 at 05:00:20AM -0400, vikas.chaudhary@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > > From: Vikas Chaudhary <vikas.chaudhary@xxxxxxxxxx> > > > > > > Broadcom iscsi offload firmware uses a non standard ibft sign of "BIFT". > > > > Why? If it uses the standard iBFT format why does it use > > a non-standard signature? > > This is useful as an academic exercise (and perhaps even a reminder to > broadcom not to do it again) but I don't think we can make it a show > stopper. The boards have shipped with the non-standard signature, so we > have to work with them. I agree as the train has left, but this got me thinking about these questions that I hope Qlogic folks could answer: - Mention what else is different - perhaps there are other entries that are a bit different? Or maybe the are some non-standard ones added on? - How has this been tested? As in had all the fields been tested (so CHAP on/off, extra ports, etc). - Do future hardware of these cards use the standard one? If so what are they? "Anything produced in 2012 and later.." ? - Is the subset of hardware that use the non-standard small enough? Would it be good to mention it in the commit. Thanks! > > 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
