Some ethernet adapter vendors are supplying products which support optional
(payed license) features. On some adapters this includes a hardware iscsi
initiator. The same adapters in a normal (no extra licenses) mode of
operation can be used as a software iscsi initiator. In addition, software
iscsi boot initiators are becoming a standard part of many vendors uefi
implementations. This is creating difficulties during early boot/install
determining the proper configuration method for these adapters when they
are used as a boot device.
The attached patch creates sysfs entries to expose information from the
acpi header of the ibft table. This information allows for a method to
easily determining if an ibft table was created by a ethernet card's
firmware or the system uefi/bios. In the case of a hardware initiator this
information in combination with the pci vendor and device id can be used
to ascertain any vendor specific behaviors that need to be accommodated.
Reviewed-by: Lee Duncan <lduncan@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: David Bond <dbond@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Correct a sentence in Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-ibft.
Signed-off-by: WANG Chao <chaowang@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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>
David Bond