On Mon, May 08, 2023 at 07:28:34PM +0530, Avnish Chouhan wrote: > This patch series adds support of NVMeoFC on grub. It consists of six > patches. > > Patch 1/6 (0001-ieee1275-powerpc-implements-fibre-channel-discovery-.patch): > grub-ofpathname doesn't work with fibre channel because there is no > function currently implemented for it. > This patch enables it by prividing a function that looks for the port > name, building the entire path for OF devices. > > Patch 2/6(0002-ieee1275-powerpc-enables-device-mapper-discovery.patch): > This patch enables the device mapper discovery on ofpath.c. Currently, > when we are dealing with a device like /dev/dm-* the ofpath returns null > since there is no function implemented to handle this case. > This patch implements a function that will look into /sys/block/dm-* > devices and search recursively inside slaves directory to find the root > disk. > > Patch 3/6(0003-ieee1275-implement-FCP-methods-for-WWPN-and-LUNs.patch): > This patch enables the fcp-targets and fcp-luns methods which are > responsible to get WWPNs and LUNs for fibre channel devices. > Those methods are specially necessary if the boot directory and grub > installation are in different FCP disks, allowing the dev_iterate() > to find the WWPNs and LUNs when called by searchfs.uuid tool. > > Patch 4/6(0004-change-partition-parser.patch): > Usually grub will parse the PFW arguments by searching for the first > occurence of the character ':'. > However, we can have this char more than once on NQN. > This patch changes the logic to find the last occurence of this char so we > can get the proper values > for NVMeoFC > > Patch 5/6(0005-ieee1275-add-support-for-NVMeoFC.patch): > This patch implements the functions to scan and discovery of NVMeoFC. > > Patch 6/6(0006-ieee1275-ofpath-enable-NVMeoF-logical-device-transla.patch): > This patch add code to enable the translation of logical devices to the of > NVMeoFC paths.
We are nearing to the code freeze and I am stopping getting new features which were not approved/reviewed by the GRUB maintainers earlier. So, please do not except any reviews from me in the following weeks. Though I will certainly will take a look at the series after the GRUB release... Daniel _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
