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efi: Add 'systab' information to Documentation/ABI
authorMatt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
Wed, 27 May 2015 13:14:22 +0000 (14:14 +0100)
committerMatt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
Wed, 27 May 2015 14:40:20 +0000 (15:40 +0100)
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>
Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-firmware-efi

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@@ -18,3 +18,13 @@ Contact:     Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
 Description:   It shows the physical address of config table entry in the EFI
                system table.
 Users:         Kexec
+
+What:          /sys/firmware/efi/systab
+Date:          April 2005
+Contact:       linux-efi@vger.kernel.org
+Description:   Displays the physical addresses of all EFI Configuration
+               Tables found via the EFI System Table. The order in
+               which the tables are printed forms an ABI and newer
+               versions are always printed first, i.e. ACPI20 comes
+               before ACPI.
+Users:         dmidecode