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From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad@darnok.org>
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Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] iBFT features for v2.6.36
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> > What is the tools state ? For iBFT, iscsi-initiator-utils scans
> > the /sys/firmware directory to extract the relevant data and does its
> > thing. Are there tools for AoE, SCSI RDMA Protocol (SRP), and in-memory
> > disk?
>
> I don't know about AoE and SRP (Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org> would
> know), but I have a tool which scans for mBFT directly out of /dev/mem,
> which is of course kind of ugly.  It's shipped with the Syslinux
> distribution in the utils/ directory.

Ok. Let me talk to Michael Brown about this and see what the interests are. 
This "unification" work would be post v2.6.36 thought.