Doug Maxey wrote:
On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 14:04:51 EST, Konrad Rzeszutek wrote:
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(find_ibft);
Is this x86-specific? Are suitable Kconfig dependencies in place?
Originally I had it to be x86-specific but was told that I should make it all
platforms since the IBFT is platform independent. Somebody can very well
insert a NIC with IBFT on a IA64 machine or PPC.
I would beg to differ regarding the powerpc. On powerpc, the bios is
invisible and ignored. We have our own "special" way, via the device-tree
in procfs.
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.)
-hpa
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