Recent removal of bsg read/write support

2018-09-02 Thread Dror Levin
Note: I am not subscribed to LKML so please CC replies to this email. Hi, We have an internal tool that uses the bsg read/write interface to issue SCSI commands as part of a test suite for a storage device. After recently reading on LWN that this interface is to be removed we tried porting our

Recent removal of bsg read/write support

2018-09-02 Thread Dror Levin
Note: I am not subscribed to LKML so please CC replies to this email. Hi, We have an internal tool that uses the bsg read/write interface to issue SCSI commands as part of a test suite for a storage device. After recently reading on LWN that this interface is to be removed we tried porting our

boot from efi on x86_64

2006-11-18 Thread Dror Levin
looking at the kernel source, after constant failures to boot linux on a core 2 imac, has made me understand that only i386 and ia64 support efi booting, but x86_64 does not. it makes sense, if you think about it... AFAIK, until the new core 2 imacs were out there was no x86_64 efi pc, so why

boot from efi on x86_64

2006-11-18 Thread Dror Levin
looking at the kernel source, after constant failures to boot linux on a core 2 imac, has made me understand that only i386 and ia64 support efi booting, but x86_64 does not. it makes sense, if you think about it... AFAIK, until the new core 2 imacs were out there was no x86_64 efi pc, so why