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diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-firmware-efi b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-firmware-efi new file mode 100644 index 000000000..5e4d0b27c --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-firmware-efi @@ -0,0 +1,38 @@ +What: /sys/firmware/efi/fw_vendor +Date: December 2013 +Contact: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com> +Description: It shows the physical address of firmware vendor field in the + EFI system table. +Users: Kexec + +What: /sys/firmware/efi/runtime +Date: December 2013 +Contact: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com> +Description: It shows the physical address of runtime service table entry in + the EFI system table. +Users: Kexec + +What: /sys/firmware/efi/config_table +Date: December 2013 +Contact: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com> +Description: It shows the physical address of config table entry in the EFI + system table. +Users: Kexec + +What: /sys/firmware/efi/systab +Date: April 2005 +Contact: linux-efi@vger.kernel.org +Description: Displays the physical addresses of all EFI Configuration + Tables found via the EFI System Table. The order in + which the tables are printed forms an ABI and newer + versions are always printed first, i.e. ACPI20 comes + before ACPI. +Users: dmidecode + +What: /sys/firmware/efi/tables/rci2 +Date: July 2019 +Contact: Narendra K <Narendra.K@dell.com>, linux-bugs@dell.com +Description: Displays the content of the Runtime Configuration Interface + Table version 2 on Dell EMC PowerEdge systems in binary format +Users: It is used by Dell EMC OpenManage Server Administrator tool to + populate BIOS setup page. diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-firmware-efi-esrt b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-firmware-efi-esrt new file mode 100644 index 000000000..31b57676d --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-firmware-efi-esrt @@ -0,0 +1,87 @@ +What: /sys/firmware/efi/esrt/ +Date: February 2015 +Contact: Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com> +Description: Provides userland access to read the EFI System Resource Table + (ESRT), a catalog of firmware for which can be updated with + the UEFI UpdateCapsule mechanism described in section 7.5 of + the UEFI Standard. +Users: fwupdate - https://github.com/rhinstaller/fwupdate + +What: /sys/firmware/efi/esrt/fw_resource_count +Date: February 2015 +Contact: Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com> +Description: The number of entries in the ESRT + +What: /sys/firmware/efi/esrt/fw_resource_count_max +Date: February 2015 +Contact: Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com> +Description: The maximum number of entries that /could/ be registered + in the allocation the table is currently in. This is + really only useful to the system firmware itself. + +What: /sys/firmware/efi/esrt/fw_resource_version +Date: February 2015 +Contact: Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com> +Description: The version of the ESRT structure provided by the firmware. + +What: /sys/firmware/efi/esrt/entries/entry$N/ +Date: February 2015 +Contact: Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com> +Description: Each ESRT entry is identified by a GUID, and each gets a + subdirectory under entries/ . + example: /sys/firmware/efi/esrt/entries/entry0/ + +What: /sys/firmware/efi/esrt/entries/entry$N/fw_type +Date: February 2015 +Contact: Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com> +Description: What kind of firmware entry this is: + + == =============== + 0 Unknown + 1 System Firmware + 2 Device Firmware + 3 UEFI Driver + == =============== + +What: /sys/firmware/efi/esrt/entries/entry$N/fw_class +Date: February 2015 +Contact: Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com> +Description: This is the entry's guid, and will match the directory name. + +What: /sys/firmware/efi/esrt/entries/entry$N/fw_version +Date: February 2015 +Contact: Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com> +Description: The version of the firmware currently installed. This is a + 32-bit unsigned integer. + +What: /sys/firmware/efi/esrt/entries/entry$N/lowest_supported_fw_version +Date: February 2015 +Contact: Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com> +Description: The lowest version of the firmware that can be installed. + +What: /sys/firmware/efi/esrt/entries/entry$N/capsule_flags +Date: February 2015 +Contact: Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com> +Description: Flags that must be passed to UpdateCapsule() + +What: /sys/firmware/efi/esrt/entries/entry$N/last_attempt_version +Date: February 2015 +Contact: Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com> +Description: The last firmware version for which an update was attempted. + +What: /sys/firmware/efi/esrt/entries/entry$N/last_attempt_status +Date: February 2015 +Contact: Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com> +Description: The result of the last firmware update attempt for the + firmware resource entry. + + == ====================== + 0 Success + 1 Insufficient resources + 2 Incorrect version + 3 Invalid format + 4 Authentication error + 5 AC power event + 6 Battery power event + == ====================== + diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-firmware-efi-runtime-map b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-firmware-efi-runtime-map new file mode 100644 index 000000000..9c4d581be --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-firmware-efi-runtime-map @@ -0,0 +1,36 @@ +What: /sys/firmware/efi/runtime-map/ +Date: December 2013 +Contact: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com> +Description: Switching efi runtime services to virtual mode requires + that all efi memory ranges which have the runtime attribute + bit set to be mapped to virtual addresses. + + The efi runtime services can only be switched to virtual + mode once without rebooting. The kexec kernel must maintain + the same physical to virtual address mappings as the first + kernel. The mappings are exported to sysfs so userspace tools + can reassemble them and pass them into the kexec kernel. + + /sys/firmware/efi/runtime-map/ is the directory the kernel + exports that information in. + + subdirectories are named with the number of the memory range:: + + /sys/firmware/efi/runtime-map/0 + /sys/firmware/efi/runtime-map/1 + /sys/firmware/efi/runtime-map/2 + /sys/firmware/efi/runtime-map/3 + ... + + Each subdirectory contains five files: + + ========= ========================================= + attribute The attributes of the memory range. + num_pages The size of the memory range in pages. + phys_addr The physical address of the memory range. + type The type of the memory range. + virt_addr The virtual address of the memory range. + ========= ========================================= + + Above values are all hexadecimal numbers with the '0x' prefix. +Users: Kexec |