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From: Matt Fleming <matt@console-pimps.org>
To: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
Cc: mjg59@srcf.ucam.org, linux-efi@vger.kernel.org,
	toshi.kani@hp.com, greg@kroah.com, x86@kernel.org,
	kexec@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com, horms@verge.net.au,
	bp@alien8.de, ebiederm@xmission.com, hpa@zytor.com,
	vgoyal@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 05/12] efi: export more efi table variable to sysfs
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2013 15:57:31 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131126155731.GM11521@console-pimps.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1385445477-9665-6-git-send-email-dyoung@redhat.com>

On Tue, 26 Nov, at 01:57:50PM, Dave Young wrote:
> Export fw_vendor, runtime and config tables physical
> addresses to /sys/firmware/efi/systab becaue kexec
> kernel will need them.
 
This commit log needs updating.

> From EFI spec these 3 variables will be updated to
> virtual address after entering virtual mode. But
> kernel startup code will need the physical address.
> 
> changelog:
> Greg: add standalone sysfs files instead of add lines to systab
> Document them as testing ABI
> Greg: use group attrs and is_visible
> Boris: align comments lines
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
> ---
>  Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-firmware-efi | 26 ++++++++++++++++
>  arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c                  |  4 +++
>  drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c                   | 44 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  include/linux/efi.h                          |  3 ++
>  4 files changed, 77 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-firmware-efi
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-firmware-efi b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-firmware-efi
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000..9252a24
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-firmware-efi
> @@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
> +What:		/sys/firmware/efi/fw_vendor
> +Date:		Nov 2013
> +Contact:	Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.org>

redhat.org eh? Typo or legit?

> +Description:
> +		Shows the physical address of firmware vendor in the EFI
> +		system table.

It shows the physical address of the firmware vendor "entry" or "field"
in the EFI system table.

> +Users:
> +		Kexec Mailing List <kexec@lists.infradead.org>

The "Kexec mailing list" isn't a user, kexec is.

-- 
Matt Fleming, Intel Open Source Technology Center

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-11-26 15:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 73+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-11-26  5:57 [PATCH v4 00/12] kexec kernel efi runtime support Dave Young
2013-11-26  5:57 ` [PATCH v4 01/12] efi: remove unused variables in __map_region Dave Young
2013-11-26  5:57 ` [PATCH v4 02/12] efi: add a wrapper function efi_map_region_fixed Dave Young
2013-11-26  5:57 ` [PATCH v4 03/12] efi: reserve boot service fix Dave Young
2013-11-26  5:57 ` [PATCH v4 04/12] efi: cleanup efi_enter_virtual_mode function Dave Young
2013-11-26 14:51   ` Matt Fleming
2013-11-26  5:57 ` [PATCH v4 05/12] efi: export more efi table variable to sysfs Dave Young
2013-11-26  8:50   ` Borislav Petkov
2013-11-26  9:13     ` Dave Young
2013-11-26 15:57   ` Matt Fleming [this message]
2013-11-27  2:53     ` Dave Young
2013-11-26  5:57 ` [PATCH v4 06/12] efi: export efi runtime memory mapping " Dave Young
2013-11-26 19:30   ` Matt Fleming
2013-11-27  3:07     ` Dave Young
2013-11-27  8:17       ` Dave Young
2013-11-27 11:44   ` Borislav Petkov
2013-11-29  9:40     ` Dave Young
2013-11-29 11:50       ` Borislav Petkov
2013-11-29 11:59         ` Matt Fleming
2013-12-02  2:51           ` Dave Young
2013-12-02  2:59         ` Dave Young
2013-12-02  9:40           ` Borislav Petkov
2013-12-07  9:01             ` Dave Young
2013-12-07 13:30               ` Borislav Petkov
2013-12-07 21:46                 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-12-09  2:23                 ` Dave Young
2013-11-26  5:57 ` [PATCH v4 07/12] efi: passing kexec necessary efi data via setup_data Dave Young
2013-11-26 22:04   ` Matt Fleming
2013-11-27  4:52     ` Dave Young
2013-11-27 10:17       ` Matt Fleming
2013-11-29  9:46         ` Dave Young
2013-11-27 14:07   ` Borislav Petkov
2013-11-29  9:14     ` Dave Young
2013-11-29 16:46       ` Borislav Petkov
2013-12-02  2:49         ` Dave Young
2013-12-02  9:44           ` Borislav Petkov
2013-12-02 22:33       ` Toshi Kani
2013-12-03  1:31         ` Toshi Kani
2013-12-03  1:56           ` Dave Young
2013-12-03 15:39             ` Toshi Kani
2013-12-04  2:46               ` Dave Young
2013-12-04 16:43                 ` Toshi Kani
2013-12-05  1:56                   ` Dave Young
2013-12-05 11:51                     ` Borislav Petkov
2013-12-05 15:56                       ` Toshi Kani
2013-12-05 20:52                         ` Borislav Petkov
2013-12-06  1:31                           ` Dave Young
2013-11-26  5:57 ` [PATCH v4 08/12] efi: only print saved efi runtime maps instead of all memmap ranges for kexec Dave Young
2013-11-27 10:27   ` Matt Fleming
2013-11-27 14:27     ` Borislav Petkov
2013-11-29  8:50       ` Dave Young
2013-11-29 16:47         ` Borislav Petkov
2013-12-02  2:38           ` Dave Young
2013-11-29  8:47     ` Dave Young
2013-11-26  5:57 ` [PATCH v4 09/12] x86: add xloadflags bit for efi runtime support on kexec Dave Young
2013-11-27 14:27   ` Borislav Petkov
2013-11-29  8:44     ` Dave Young
2013-11-26  5:57 ` [PATCH v4 10/12] x86: export x86 boot_params to sysfs Dave Young
2013-11-27 11:20   ` Matt Fleming
2013-11-29  9:44     ` Dave Young
2013-11-27 14:56   ` Borislav Petkov
2013-11-29  8:42     ` Dave Young
2013-11-26  5:57 ` [PATCH v4 11/12] x86: reserve setup_data ranges late after parsing memmap cmdline Dave Young
2013-11-27 15:07   ` Borislav Petkov
2013-11-29  8:35     ` Dave Young
2013-11-29 16:56       ` Borislav Petkov
2013-11-26  5:57 ` [PATCH v4 12/12] x86: kdebugfs do not use __va for getting setup_data virt addr Dave Young
2013-11-26  6:04 ` [PATCH v4 00/12] kexec kernel efi runtime support Dave Young
2013-11-27 12:50 ` Matt Fleming
2013-11-28  2:08   ` Dave Young
2013-11-29  8:28     ` Dave Young
2013-11-29 17:02       ` Borislav Petkov
2013-12-02  2:32         ` Dave Young

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