From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Russ Anderson <rja@sgi.com>
Cc: mingo@elte.hu, tglx@linutronix.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Subject: Re: x86 BIOS interface for partitioning and system serial number on SGI UV
Date: Mon, 04 Aug 2008 17:59:42 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4897A5FE.9070703@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080804221951.GA252105@sgi.com>
Russ Anderson wrote:
>> This really seems more that it should belong in sysfs --
>> /sys/class/firmware presumably.
>
> /proc/sgi_uv already exists, similar to /proc/sgi_sn on Itanium systems.
>
> Would it be /sys/class/firmware? Reading Documentation/sysfs-rules.txt
> seems to indicate somewhere under /sys/devices, such as /sys/devices/system/,
> but I may be wrong.
/sys/class/firmware is usually where firmware-related things end up, but
gregkh is the authority on sysfs organization.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-05 1:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-31 19:57 x86 BIOS interface for partitioning and system serial number on SGI UV Russ Anderson
2008-08-01 17:34 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-08-04 22:19 ` Russ Anderson
2008-08-05 0:50 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-08-05 0:59 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2008-08-05 3:54 ` Greg KH
2008-08-05 16:32 ` Russ Anderson
2008-08-05 16:53 ` Greg KH
2008-08-05 19:22 ` Russ Anderson
2008-08-05 23:06 ` Russ Anderson
2008-08-05 5:21 ` Kyle Moffett
2008-08-05 14:35 ` Mike Travis
2008-08-05 15:40 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-08-05 15:56 ` Mike Travis
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2008-08-05 17:24 H. Peter Anvin
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