[RFC][PATCH ] Support OFW iSCSI boot over ethernet as a block device.

[Paul Nasrat]

On Fri, 2006-11-10 at 10:46 -0600, Doug Maxey wrote:
> Certain levels of IBM firmware will allow the system to boot from an
> iscsi target.  System OFW accomplishes this by setting up a virtual
> disk device with parameters.  These parameters, when passed back to
> OFW by yaboot, directs the FW to use virtual device over the ethernet
> port that will then access iscsi target as a block device.  This patch
> extracts those parameters from the property of the virtual device and
> passes them back to OFW to indicate the kernel is to be retrieved via
> the iscsi protocol.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Doug Maxey <dwm at austin.ibm.com>
> Cc: Ben Herrenscmidt <benh at kernel.crashing.org>
> Cc: Mike Christie <michaelc at cs.wisc.edu> 

Applied for going into 1.3.14.

Paul