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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-firmware-qemu_fw_cfg')
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diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-firmware-qemu_fw_cfg b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-firmware-qemu_fw_cfg index 011dda4f8e8a..ee0d6dbc810e 100644 --- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-firmware-qemu_fw_cfg +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-firmware-qemu_fw_cfg @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ Description: to the fw_cfg device can be found in "docs/specs/fw_cfg.txt" in the QEMU source tree. - === SysFS fw_cfg Interface === + **SysFS fw_cfg Interface** The fw_cfg sysfs interface described in this document is only intended to display discoverable blobs (i.e., those registered @@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ Description: /sys/firmware/qemu_fw_cfg/rev - --- Discoverable fw_cfg blobs by selector key --- + **Discoverable fw_cfg blobs by selector key** All discoverable blobs listed in the fw_cfg file directory are displayed as entries named after their unique selector key @@ -45,24 +45,26 @@ Description: Each such fw_cfg sysfs entry has the following values exported as attributes: - name : The 56-byte nul-terminated ASCII string used as the + ==== ==================================================== + name The 56-byte nul-terminated ASCII string used as the blob's 'file name' in the fw_cfg directory. - size : The length of the blob, as given in the fw_cfg + size The length of the blob, as given in the fw_cfg directory. - key : The value of the blob's selector key as given in the + key The value of the blob's selector key as given in the fw_cfg directory. This value is the same as used in the parent directory name. - raw : The raw bytes of the blob, obtained by selecting the + raw The raw bytes of the blob, obtained by selecting the entry via the control register, and reading a number of bytes equal to the blob size from the data register. + ==== ==================================================== - --- Listing fw_cfg blobs by file name --- + **Listing fw_cfg blobs by file name** While the fw_cfg device does not impose any specific naming convention on the blobs registered in the file directory, QEMU developers have traditionally used path name semantics - to give each blob a descriptive name. For example: + to give each blob a descriptive name. For example:: "bootorder" "genroms/kvmvapic.bin" @@ -81,7 +83,7 @@ Description: of directories matching the path name components of fw_cfg blob names, ending in symlinks to the by_key entry for each "basename", as illustrated below (assume current directory is - /sys/firmware): + /sys/firmware):: qemu_fw_cfg/by_name/bootorder -> ../by_key/38 qemu_fw_cfg/by_name/etc/e820 -> ../../by_key/35 |