Re: [PATCH] Add iSCSI iBFT support (v0.4.5)

From: Konrad Rzeszutek
Date: Mon Jan 28 2008 - 15:54:21 EST


> iBFT is not platform-independent; it only makes sense on platforms with
> ACPI (and even then, just barely; ACPI is a poor fit for it and it was
> probably "integrated" with ACPI for political reasons.)

The spec just mentions that iBFT table has to be "compatible with an ACPI
table format" and nothing else. In reality I've only tested this on x86_64
and i386. We can limit it to be X86 || IA64 but I wouldn't make it dependent
on ACPI - as this data does not necessarily have to be exported via ACPI.
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