On 05/07/2014 02:21 PM, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote: > 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). > This supports the same stuff as was added in the original commit for that string: 140363500ddadad0c09cb512cc0c96a4d3efa053 It just was not carried over in the acpi specific table in commit 935a9fee51c945b8942be2d7b4bae069167b4886. -- 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
