[ipxe-devel] new storage driver

[Michael Brown]

On 30/09/15 02:38, James Harper wrote:
>>> Yep. Got all that working now. I can boot Win8 from my new SAN protocol
>> (well... up to the point where it wants my windows SAN driver, which I
>> haven't finished yet).
>>
>> Awesome.  Out of curiosity, what is this SAN protocol?
>
> It's a secret :)

I look forward to learning the secret when you release the code (under 
GPL)!  :)

> Another question, maybe OT for this list, it looks like the acpi_describe functionality might append my description into the ACPI table into memory, but when my windows driver uses AuxKlibEnumerateSystemFirmwareTables('ACPI', ...), my new table isn't there (just the expected ACPI tables). Am I right about what I think this does? I can see that iPXE definitely calls my _describe function.
>
> I can fall back to just scanning low memory for my signature, but that doesn’t seem nearly as elegant.

Scanning low memory is how iSCSI works (for the iBFT).  AFAIK, there is 
no standard way for us to link in an extra ACPI table to the RSDT.

Michael