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  • In virtual environments (namely, Xen Dom0) virt phys and
    virt isa-bus translations cannot be freely interchanged (and
    even outside such environments it is not really correct to do so).
    When looking at memory below 1M, the latter translations should
    always be used.

    iscsi_ibft_find.c part from: Martin Wilck .

    Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich
    Signed-off-by: Peter Jones
    Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Jan Beulich
     

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  • 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
    Cc: Mike Christie
    Cc: Peter Jones
    Cc: James Bottomley
    Cc: Ingo Molnar
    Cc: Thomas Gleixner
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

    Konrad Rzeszutek