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<title>kernel.git/drivers/firmware/Kconfig, branch linux-2.6.36.y</title>
<subtitle>Hosts the 0x221E linux distro kernel.
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<updated>2010-08-14T19:34:34Z</updated>
<entry>
<title>Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-misc-2.6</title>
<updated>2010-08-14T19:34:34Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
</author>
<published>2010-08-14T19:34:34Z</published>
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-misc-2.6: (28 commits)
  [SCSI] qla4xxx: fix compilation warning
  [SCSI] make error handling more robust in the face of reservations
  [SCSI] tgt: fix warning
  [SCSI] drivers/message/fusion: Adjust confusing if indentation
  [SCSI] Return NEEDS_RETRY for eh commands with status BUSY
  [SCSI] ibmvfc: Driver version 1.0.9
  [SCSI] ibmvfc: Fix terminate_rport_io
  [SCSI] ibmvfc: Fix rport add/delete race resulting in oops
  [SCSI] lpfc 8.3.16: Change LPFC driver version to 8.3.16
  [SCSI] lpfc 8.3.16: FCoE Discovery and Failover Fixes
  [SCSI] lpfc 8.3.16: SLI Additions, updates, and code cleanup
  [SCSI] pm8001: introduce missing kfree
  [SCSI] qla4xxx: Update driver version to 5.02.00-k3
  [SCSI] qla4xxx: Added AER support for ISP82xx
  [SCSI] qla4xxx: Handle outstanding mbx cmds on hung f/w scenarios
  [SCSI] qla4xxx: updated mbx_sys_info struct to sync with FW 4.6.x
  [SCSI] qla4xxx: clear AF_DPC_SCHEDULED flage when exit from do_dpc
  [SCSI] qla4xxx: Stop firmware before doing init firmware.
  [SCSI] qla4xxx: Use the correct request queue.
  [SCSI] qla4xxx: set correct value in sess-&gt;recovery_tmo
  ...
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<entry>
<title>firmware: ibft depends on SCSI</title>
<updated>2010-08-11T20:41:43Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Randy Dunlap</name>
</author>
<published>2010-08-11T17:36:20Z</published>
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Prevent build errors when SCSI is not enabled:

iscsi_ibft.c:(.init.text+0x548d): undefined reference to `iscsi_boot_create_initiator'
iscsi_ibft.c:(.init.text+0x54a9): undefined reference to `iscsi_boot_create_ethernet'
iscsi_ibft.c:(.init.text+0x54c5): undefined reference to `iscsi_boot_create_target'
iscsi_ibft.c:(.init.text+0x55ff): undefined reference to `iscsi_boot_destroy_kset'
iscsi_ibft.c:(.init.text+0x561e): undefined reference to `iscsi_boot_create_kset'
iscsi_ibft.c:(.exit.text+0xe2c): undefined reference to `iscsi_boot_destroy_kset'

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap &lt;randy.dunlap@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Jones &lt;pjones@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>[SCSI] iscsi boot: mv iscsi_boot_sysfs to drivers/scsi</title>
<updated>2010-08-06T15:45:07Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Mike Christie</name>
</author>
<published>2010-08-02T17:46:12Z</published>
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iscsi_boot_sysfs does not depend on firmware. Any iscsi driver
can use it. This patch moves iscsi_boot_sysfs to the scsi
dir, so that it can be used on any arch with any driver.

Signed-off-by: Mike Christie &lt;mchristi@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley &lt;James.Bottomley@suse.de&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ibft: convert iscsi_ibft module to iscsi boot lib</title>
<updated>2010-05-11T17:02:38Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Mike Christie</name>
</author>
<published>2010-04-12T18:06:18Z</published>
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This patch just converts the iscsi_ibft module to the
iscsi boot sysfs lib module.

Signed-off-by: Mike Christie &lt;michaelc@cs.wisc.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Jones &lt;pjones@redhat.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ibft: separate ibft parsing from sysfs interface</title>
<updated>2010-05-11T17:02:38Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Mike Christie</name>
</author>
<published>2010-04-12T18:06:17Z</published>
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Not all iscsi drivers support ibft. For drivers like be2iscsi
that do not but are bootable through a vendor firmware specific
format/process this patch moves the sysfs interface from the ibft code
to a lib module. This then allows userspace tools to search for iscsi boot
info in a common place and in a common format.

ibft iscsi boot info is exported in the same place as it was
before: /sys/firmware/ibft.

vendor/fw boot info gets export in /sys/firmware/iscsi_bootX, where X is the
scsi host number of the HBA. Underneath these parent dirs, the
target, ethernet, and initiator dirs are the same as they were before.

Signed-off-by: Mike Christie &lt;michaelc@cs.wisc.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Jones &lt;pjones@redhat.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>firmware: only allow EDD on x86</title>
<updated>2009-12-15T16:53:34Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Mike Frysinger</name>
</author>
<published>2009-12-15T02:01:16Z</published>
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Rather than have the EDD depend on !ia64 (and assuming that only ia64,
x86, x86_64 will be including this Kconfig), have EDD depend on the only
arches which can support this code.  This should allow all other arches to
cleanly include the firmware Kconfig.

Also simplify the x86 string used by FIRMWARE_MEMMAP to match EDD.

Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger &lt;vapier@gentoo.org&gt;
Acked-by: Matt Domsch &lt;Matt_Domsch@dell.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>sysfs: add /sys/firmware/memmap</title>
<updated>2008-07-08T15:55:41Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Bernhard Walle</name>
</author>
<published>2008-06-27T11:12:54Z</published>
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This patch adds /sys/firmware/memmap interface that represents the BIOS
(or Firmware) provided memory map. The tree looks like:

    /sys/firmware/memmap/0/start   (hex number)
                           end     (hex number)
                           type    (string)
    ...                 /1/start
                           end
                           type

With the following shell snippet one can print the memory map in the same form
the kernel prints itself when booting on x86 (the E820 map).

  --------- 8&lt; --------------------------
    #!/bin/sh
    cd /sys/firmware/memmap
    for dir in * ; do
        start=$(cat $dir/start)
        end=$(cat $dir/end)
        type=$(cat $dir/type)
        printf "%016x-%016x (%s)\n" $start $[ $end +1] "$type"
    done
  --------- &gt;8 --------------------------

That patch only provides the needed interface:

 1. The sysfs interface.
 2. The structure and enumeration definition.
 3. The function firmware_map_add() and firmware_map_add_early()
    that should be called from architecture code (E820/EFI, for
    example) to add the contents to the interface.

If the kernel is compiled without CONFIG_FIRMWARE_MEMMAP, the interface does
nothing without cluttering the architecture-specific code with #ifdef's.

The purpose of the new interface is kexec: While /proc/iomem represents
the *used* memory map (e.g. modified via kernel parameters like 'memmap'
and 'mem'), the /sys/firmware/memmap tree represents the unmodified memory
map provided via the firmware. So kexec can:

 - use the original memory map for rebooting,
 - use the /proc/iomem for setting up the ELF core headers for kdump
   case that should only represent the memory of the system.

The patch has been tested on i386 and x86_64.

Signed-off-by: Bernhard Walle &lt;bwalle@suse.de&gt;
Acked-by: Greg KH &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal &lt;vgoyal@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: kexec@lists.infradead.org
Cc: yhlu.kernel@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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<entry>
<title>edd: add default mode CONFIG_EDD_OFF=n, override with edd={on,off}</title>
<updated>2008-04-29T15:06:23Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Tim Gardner</name>
</author>
<published>2008-04-29T08:02:45Z</published>
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Add a kernel parameter option to 'edd' to enable/disable BIOS Enhanced Disk
Drive Services.  CONFIG_EDD_OFF disables EDD while still compiling EDD into
the kernel.  Default behavior can be forced using 'edd=on' or 'edd=off' as
a kernel parameter.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix kernel-parameters.txt]
Signed-off-by: Tim Gardner &lt;tim.gardner@canonical.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Matt Domsch &lt;Matt_Domsch@dell.com&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" &lt;rdunlap@xenotime.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Firmware: add iSCSI iBFT Support</title>
<updated>2008-04-20T02:10:28Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Konrad Rzeszutek</name>
</author>
<published>2008-04-10T02:50:41Z</published>
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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 &lt;konradr@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Christie &lt;michaelc@cs.wisc.edu&gt;
Cc: Peter Jones &lt;pjones@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: James Bottomley &lt;James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;


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<entry>
<title>DMI-based module autoloading</title>
<updated>2007-07-11T23:09:00Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Lennart Poettering</name>
</author>
<published>2007-05-08T20:07:02Z</published>
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The patch below adds DMI/SMBIOS based module autoloading to the Linux
kernel. The idea is to load laptop drivers automatically (and other
drivers which cannot be autoloaded otherwise), based on the DMI system
identification information of the BIOS.

Right now most distros manually try to load all available laptop
drivers on bootup in the hope that at least one of them loads
successfully. This patch does away with all that, and uses udev to
automatically load matching drivers on the right machines.

Basically the patch just exports the DMI information that has been
parsed by the kernel anyway to userspace via a sysfs device
/sys/class/dmi/id and makes sure that proper modalias attributes are
available. Besides adding the "modalias" attribute it also adds
attributes for a few other DMI fields which might be useful for
writing udev rules.

This patch is not an attempt to export the entire DMI/SMBIOS data to
userspace. We already have "dmidecode" which parses the complete DMI
info from userspace. The purpose of this patch is machine model
identification and good udev integration.

To take advantage of DMI based module autoloading, a driver should
export one or more MODULE_ALIAS fields similar to these:

MODULE_ALIAS("dmi:*:svnMICRO-STARINT'LCO.,LTD:pnMS-1013:pvr0131*:cvnMICRO-STARINT'LCO.,LTD:ct10:*");
MODULE_ALIAS("dmi:*:svnMicro-StarInternational:pnMS-1058:pvr0581:rvnMSI:rnMS-1058:*:ct10:*");
MODULE_ALIAS("dmi:*:svnMicro-StarInternational:pnMS-1412:*:rvnMSI:rnMS-1412:*:cvnMICRO-STARINT'LCO.,LTD:ct10:*");
MODULE_ALIAS("dmi:*:svnNOTEBOOK:pnSAM2000:pvr0131*:cvnMICRO-STARINT'LCO.,LTD:ct10:*");

These lines are specific to my msi-laptop.c driver. They are basically
just a concatenation of a few carefully selected DMI fields with all
potentially bad characters stripped.

Besides laptop drivers, modules like "hdaps", the i2c modules
and the hwmon modules are good candidates for "dmi:" MODULE_ALIAS
lines.

Besides merely exporting the DMI data via sysfs the patch adds
support for a few more DMI fields. Especially the CHASSIS fields are
very useful to identify different laptop modules. The patch also adds
working MODULE_ALIAS lines to my msi-laptop.c driver.

I'd like to thank Kay Sievers for helping me to clean up this patch
for posting it on lkml.

Patch is against Linus' current GIT HEAD. Should probably apply to
older kernels as well without modification.


Signed-off-by: Lennart Poettering &lt;mzxreary@0pointer.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers &lt;kay.sievers@vrfy.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;



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