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| author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2015-06-25 17:14:01 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2015-06-25 17:14:01 -0700 |
| commit | f7b08217c755e88a29b5bd53b4a1d10cd8b3c5f8 (patch) | |
| tree | c4b76e53bade489f0bf49bd262da704a4b0db66c /Documentation | |
| parent | 64e22b86854227b4d13a57fa02f26472bc426812 (diff) | |
| parent | 9ea650c804404e55dbf17c928203141282e759ab (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
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -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-tables | 22 |
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. |