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From: Sean Rhodes <sean@starlabs.systems>
To: Tzung-Bi Shih <tzungbi@kernel.org>
Cc: "Hans de Goede" <hansg@kernel.org>,
	"Ilpo Järvinen" <ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com>,
	"Corentin Chary" <corentin.chary@gmail.com>,
	"Luke D. Jones" <luke@ljones.dev>,
	"Denis Benato" <denis.benato@linux.dev>,
	"Prasanth Ksr" <prasanth.ksr@dell.com>,
	"Jorge Lopez" <jorge.lopez2@hp.com>,
	"Mark Pearson" <mpearson-lenovo@squebb.ca>,
	"Derek J. Clark" <derekjohn.clark@gmail.com>,
	"Joshua Grisham" <josh@joshuagrisham.com>,
	"Sean Rhodes" <sean@starlabs.systems>,
	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>,
	"Huacai Chen" <chenhuacai@kernel.org>,
	"Chen-Yu Tsai" <wenst@chromium.org>,
	"Florian Fainelli" <florian.fainelli@broadcom.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org, Dell.Client.Kernel@dell.com,
	"Brian Norris" <briannorris@chromium.org>,
	"Julius Werner" <jwerner@chromium.org>,
	"Thomas Zimmermann" <tzimmermann@suse.de>,
	"Javier Martinez Canillas" <javierm@redhat.com>,
	"Titouan Ameline de Cadeville" <titouan.ameline@gmail.com>,
	"Kees Cook" <kees@kernel.org>,
	chrome-platform@lists.linux.dev
Subject: [PATCH v3 0/3] coreboot CFR firmware attributes
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2026 07:12:43 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <cover.1783663929.git.sean@starlabs.systems> (raw)

Hi,

This series adds a coreboot CFR firmware-attributes driver.

v3 addresses Julius's review feedback that this does not belong under
platform/x86.  The driver now lives under drivers/firmware/coreboot/,
next to the existing coreboot table consumers.  To support that, the
firmware-attributes class helper is moved from drivers/platform/x86 to
drivers/firmware.

The series also renames drivers/firmware/google to
drivers/firmware/coreboot, because the drivers in that directory are
coreboot table drivers rather than Google-specific firmware drivers.
The existing CONFIG_GOOGLE_* symbols are intentionally kept to avoid
user configuration churn.

The CFR driver uses the existing firmware-attributes ABI.  It exposes
runtime EFI variable-backed boolean, enum and integer options, skips
suppressed, volatile, dependency-gated and non-runtime options, and keeps
read-only or inactive options read-only in sysfs.

For CFR runtime-apply metadata using APM_CNT, x86 systems can apply a
setting immediately after writing the EFI variable.  Non-x86 builds keep
the EFI write and report pending_reboot.

Changes in v3:
- Move the driver from platform/x86 to drivers/firmware/coreboot.
- Split out the firmware-attributes class helper move.
- Rename drivers/firmware/google to drivers/firmware/coreboot.
- Keep CONFIG_GOOGLE_* symbols unchanged.
- Keep coreboot bus internals private to drivers/firmware/coreboot.
- Keep CFR record definitions private to the CFR driver.
- Avoid rewriting EFI variables when userspace writes the current value.

Testing:
- Tested on a Star Labs Byte with firmware 26.07 and the driver built as a
  module against Linux 6.17.
- Verified runtime APM_CNT apply with power_led.
- Verified reboot-needed behavior with debug_level.
- Built x86 objects with W=1 for the CFR/coreboot/helper path and touched
  platform-x86 firmware-attributes users.
- Built ARM64 objects with clang for the CFR/coreboot/helper path.
- Passed git diff --check and scripts/checkpatch.pl --strict.

Sean Rhodes (3):
  firmware: Move firmware attributes class helper
  firmware: Rename google firmware directory to coreboot
  firmware: coreboot: Add CFR firmware attributes driver

 MAINTAINERS                                   |   18 +-
 drivers/firmware/Kconfig                      |    5 +-
 drivers/firmware/Makefile                     |    3 +-
 drivers/firmware/{google => coreboot}/Kconfig |   19 +-
 .../firmware/{google => coreboot}/Makefile    |    1 +
 drivers/firmware/{google => coreboot}/cbmem.c |    0
 drivers/firmware/coreboot/coreboot-cfr.c      | 1068 +++++++++++++++++
 .../{google => coreboot}/coreboot_table.c     |    0
 .../{google => coreboot}/coreboot_table.h     |    0
 .../framebuffer-coreboot.c                    |    0
 drivers/firmware/{google => coreboot}/gsmi.c  |    0
 .../memconsole-coreboot.c                     |    0
 .../memconsole-x86-legacy.c                   |    0
 .../{google => coreboot}/memconsole.c         |    0
 .../{google => coreboot}/memconsole.h         |    6 +-
 drivers/firmware/{google => coreboot}/vpd.c   |    0
 .../{google => coreboot}/vpd_decode.c         |    0
 .../{google => coreboot}/vpd_decode.h         |    0
 .../firmware_attributes_class.c               |    2 +-
 drivers/platform/x86/Kconfig                  |    3 -
 drivers/platform/x86/Makefile                 |    2 -
 drivers/platform/x86/asus-armoury.c           |    2 +-
 .../x86/dell/dell-wmi-sysman/sysman.c         |    2 +-
 drivers/platform/x86/hp/hp-bioscfg/bioscfg.c  |    2 +-
 drivers/platform/x86/lenovo/think-lmi.c       |    2 +-
 drivers/platform/x86/lenovo/wmi-other.c       |    2 +-
 drivers/platform/x86/samsung-galaxybook.c     |    2 +-
 .../linux/firmware_attributes.h               |    6 +-
 28 files changed, 1120 insertions(+), 25 deletions(-)
 rename drivers/firmware/{google => coreboot}/Kconfig (83%)
 rename drivers/firmware/{google => coreboot}/Makefile (92%)
 rename drivers/firmware/{google => coreboot}/cbmem.c (100%)
 create mode 100644 drivers/firmware/coreboot/coreboot-cfr.c
 rename drivers/firmware/{google => coreboot}/coreboot_table.c (100%)
 rename drivers/firmware/{google => coreboot}/coreboot_table.h (100%)
 rename drivers/firmware/{google => coreboot}/framebuffer-coreboot.c (100%)
 rename drivers/firmware/{google => coreboot}/gsmi.c (100%)
 rename drivers/firmware/{google => coreboot}/memconsole-coreboot.c (100%)
 rename drivers/firmware/{google => coreboot}/memconsole-x86-legacy.c (100%)
 rename drivers/firmware/{google => coreboot}/memconsole.c (100%)
 rename drivers/firmware/{google => coreboot}/memconsole.h (82%)
 rename drivers/firmware/{google => coreboot}/vpd.c (100%)
 rename drivers/firmware/{google => coreboot}/vpd_decode.c (100%)
 rename drivers/firmware/{google => coreboot}/vpd_decode.h (100%)
 rename drivers/{platform/x86 => firmware}/firmware_attributes_class.c (94%)
 rename drivers/platform/x86/firmware_attributes_class.h => include/linux/firmware_attributes.h (60%)


             reply	other threads:[~2026-07-10  6:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-07-10  6:12 Sean Rhodes [this message]
2026-07-10  6:12 ` [PATCH v3 1/3] firmware: Move firmware attributes class helper Sean Rhodes
2026-07-10 12:11   ` Mark Pearson
2026-07-10  6:12 ` [PATCH v3 2/3] firmware: Rename google firmware directory to coreboot Sean Rhodes
2026-07-10  7:34   ` Thomas Zimmermann
2026-07-10  6:12 ` [PATCH v3 3/3] firmware: coreboot: Add CFR firmware attributes driver Sean Rhodes
2026-07-10  7:42   ` Uwe Kleine-König

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