linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] iBFT features for v2.6.36

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Date:	Tue, 03 Aug 2010 16:23:19 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Peter Jones <pjones@...hat.com>
CC:	Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad@...nel.org>,
	Konrad Rzeszutek <konrad@...a.kernel.org>,
	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, James.Bottomley@...e.de,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, lenb@...nel.org,
	michaelc@...wisc.edu, mcb30@...e.org
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] iBFT features for v2.6.36

On 08/03/2010 07:35 AM, Peter Jones wrote:
> 
> The current iBFT specification and the current code (this push) includes the
> ability to specify the location of the iBFT table using the standard ACPI table
> mechanism, which is required on UEFI machines supporting iBFT, and which I
> would encourage non-UEFI machines to also use where possible.  Obviously some
> systems, especially BIOS-based machines doing iSCSI boot on expansion cards,
> have difficulty with this, so we're not planning on de-supporting the old
> memory scanning method.
> 

Not just expansion cards, but also post-INT19 software solutions.

	-hpa
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