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efi: Expose underlying UEFI firmware platform size to userland
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In some cases (e.g. Intel Bay Trail machines), the kernel will happily
run in 64-bit even if the underlying UEFI firmware platform is
32-bit. That's great, but it's difficult for userland utilities like
grub-install to do the right thing in such a situation.

The kernel already knows about the size of the firmware via
efi_enabled(EFI_64BIT). Add an extra sysfs interface
/sys/firmware/efi/fw_platform_size to expose that information to
userland for low-level utilities to use.

Signed-off-by: Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com>
Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
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Steve McIntyre authored and Matt Fleming committed Jan 12, 2015
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Expand Up @@ -112,15 +112,24 @@ EFI_ATTR_SHOW(fw_vendor);
EFI_ATTR_SHOW(runtime);
EFI_ATTR_SHOW(config_table);

static ssize_t fw_platform_size_show(struct kobject *kobj,
struct kobj_attribute *attr, char *buf)
{
return sprintf(buf, "%d\n", efi_enabled(EFI_64BIT) ? 64 : 32);
}

static struct kobj_attribute efi_attr_fw_vendor = __ATTR_RO(fw_vendor);
static struct kobj_attribute efi_attr_runtime = __ATTR_RO(runtime);
static struct kobj_attribute efi_attr_config_table = __ATTR_RO(config_table);
static struct kobj_attribute efi_attr_fw_platform_size =
__ATTR_RO(fw_platform_size);

static struct attribute *efi_subsys_attrs[] = {
&efi_attr_systab.attr,
&efi_attr_fw_vendor.attr,
&efi_attr_runtime.attr,
&efi_attr_config_table.attr,
&efi_attr_fw_platform_size.attr,
NULL,
};

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