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Subject: Re: x86 BIOS interface for partitioning and system serial number
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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