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authorMatt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>2015-05-27 09:14:22 -0400
committerMatt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>2015-05-27 10:40:20 -0400
commitc208358c2cc832eeb5b341a465eee30be19cd5a0 (patch)
treea3fefb97bd669f42b96a18f8251dd52e0bfc518e
parentb119fe080a83d32d78f56877fe3a95a155417130 (diff)
efi: Add 'systab' information to Documentation/ABI
It's not clear right now that the order in which entries are displayed in /sys/firmware/efi/systab actually forms an ABI that userspace tools rely upon. Document the ABI along with the userspace tool that cares. Suggested-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> Reviewed-by: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de> Cc: Leif Lindholm <leif.lindholm@linaro.org> Cc: Ivan Khoronzhuk <ivan.khoronzhuk@globallogic.com> Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
-rw-r--r--Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-firmware-efi10
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diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-firmware-efi b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-firmware-efi
index 05874da7ce80..e794eac32a90 100644
--- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-firmware-efi
+++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-firmware-efi
@@ -18,3 +18,13 @@ Contact: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
18Description: It shows the physical address of config table entry in the EFI 18Description: It shows the physical address of config table entry in the EFI
19 system table. 19 system table.
20Users: Kexec 20Users: Kexec
21
22What: /sys/firmware/efi/systab
23Date: April 2005
24Contact: linux-efi@vger.kernel.org
25Description: Displays the physical addresses of all EFI Configuration
26 Tables found via the EFI System Table. The order in
27 which the tables are printed forms an ABI and newer
28 versions are always printed first, i.e. ACPI20 comes
29 before ACPI.
30Users: dmidecode