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| author | Konrad Rzeszutek <ketuzsezr@darnok.org> | 2008-04-09 19:50:41 -0700 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> | 2008-04-19 19:10:28 -0700 |
| commit | 138fe4e069798d9aa948a5402ff15e58f483ee4e (patch) | |
| tree | 413ab0c86618df7dba7724c1945fd46cd33298b9 /drivers/firmware/Kconfig | |
| parent | 95bc6a10830de469eee94c17fb1c37b3b1430715 (diff) | |
Firmware: add iSCSI iBFT Support
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@linux-foundation.org: fix build]
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek <konradr@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu>
Cc: Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/firmware/Kconfig')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/firmware/Kconfig | 20 |
1 files changed, 20 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/firmware/Kconfig b/drivers/firmware/Kconfig index 05f02a326f1c..40ffd767647d 100644 --- a/drivers/firmware/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/firmware/Kconfig @@ -93,4 +93,24 @@ config DMIID information from userspace through /sys/class/dmi/id/ or if you want DMI-based module auto-loading. +config ISCSI_IBFT_FIND + bool "iSCSI Boot Firmware Table Attributes" + depends on X86 + default n + help + This option enables the kernel to find the region of memory + in which the ISCSI Boot Firmware Table (iBFT) resides. This + is necessary for iSCSI Boot Firmware Table Attributes module to work + properly. + +config ISCSI_IBFT + tristate "iSCSI Boot Firmware Table Attributes module" + depends on ISCSI_IBFT_FIND + default n + help + This option enables support for detection and exposing of iSCSI + Boot Firmware Table (iBFT) via sysfs to userspace. If you wish to + detect iSCSI boot parameters dynamically during system boot, say Y. + Otherwise, say N. + endmenu |