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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2015-06-25 17:14:01 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2015-06-25 17:14:01 -0700
commitf7b08217c755e88a29b5bd53b4a1d10cd8b3c5f8 (patch)
treec4b76e53bade489f0bf49bd262da704a4b0db66c /Documentation
parent64e22b86854227b4d13a57fa02f26472bc426812 (diff)
parent9ea650c804404e55dbf17c928203141282e759ab (diff)
Merge branch 'dmi-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jdelvare/staging
Pull DMI updates from Jean Delvare: "The most important change is the new sysfs interface to the DMI table, which will let user-space tools (such as dmidecode) access the table without relying on /dev/mem" * 'dmi-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jdelvare/staging: firmware: dmi: struct dmi_header should be packed firmware: dmi_scan: Coding style cleanups Documentation: ABI: sysfs-firmware-dmi: add -entries suffix to file name firmware: dmi_scan: add SBMIOS entry and DMI tables firmware: dmi_scan: Trim DMI table length before exporting it firmware: dmi_scan: Rename dmi_table to dmi_decode_table firmware: dmi: List my quilt tree firmware: dmi_scan: Only honor end-of-table for 64-bit tables
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-firmware-dmi-entries (renamed from Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-firmware-dmi)2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-firmware-dmi-tables22
2 files changed, 23 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-firmware-dmi b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-firmware-dmi-entries
index c78f9ab01e56..210ad44b95a5 100644
--- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-firmware-dmi
+++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-firmware-dmi-entries
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-What: /sys/firmware/dmi/
+What: /sys/firmware/dmi/entries/
Date: February 2011
Contact: Mike Waychison <mikew@google.com>
Description:
diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-firmware-dmi-tables b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-firmware-dmi-tables
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..ff3cac8ed0bd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-firmware-dmi-tables
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+What: /sys/firmware/dmi/tables/
+Date: April 2015
+Contact: Ivan Khoronzhuk <ivan.khoronzhuk@globallogic.com>
+Description:
+ The firmware provides DMI structures as a packed list of
+ data referenced by a SMBIOS table entry point. The SMBIOS
+ entry point contains general information, like SMBIOS
+ version, DMI table size, etc. The structure, content and
+ size of SMBIOS entry point is dependent on SMBIOS version.
+ The format of SMBIOS entry point and DMI structures
+ can be read in SMBIOS specification.
+
+ The dmi/tables provides raw SMBIOS entry point and DMI tables
+ through sysfs as an alternative to utilities reading them
+ from /dev/mem. The raw SMBIOS entry point and DMI table are
+ presented as binary attributes and are accessible via:
+
+ /sys/firmware/dmi/tables/smbios_entry_point
+ /sys/firmware/dmi/tables/DMI
+
+ The complete DMI information can be obtained using these two
+ tables.