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diff --git a/usr/fwparam_ibft/README b/usr/fwparam_ibft/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f040493 --- /dev/null +++ b/usr/fwparam_ibft/README @@ -0,0 +1,23 @@ +The files in this directory are used by +iscsi programs in "usr" to access and parse +the iBFT data. + +This code uses bison/lex to parse the data, +but at some point it was decided to check in +the output files from bison and flex, so that +the average source-code user would not have +to run those tools to compile the code. + +Now it is likely that most folks can get those +tools, but the system of having static +parsing and lexical analysis has worked for +so long (and isn't broken), it would be a +shame to change and break it. So the static +files remain, for now. + +Note: if you wish to use these object files, +they have two external requirements: they +need the compatability routines in sysdeps.o, +and they need the file iscsi_net_util.o. + +Lee Duncan Mar, 2022 |