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firmware: introduce sysfs driver for QEMU's fw_cfg device
Make fw_cfg entries of type "file" available via sysfs. Entries are listed under /sys/firmware/qemu_fw_cfg/by_key, in folders named after each entry's selector key. Filename, selector value, and size read-only attributes are included for each entry. Also, a "raw" attribute allows retrieval of the full binary content of each entry. The fw_cfg device can be instantiated automatically from ACPI or the Device Tree, or manually by using a kernel module (or command line) parameter, with a syntax outlined in the documentation file. Signed-off-by: Gabriel Somlo <somlo@cmu.edu> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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What: /sys/firmware/qemu_fw_cfg/ | ||
Date: August 2015 | ||
Contact: Gabriel Somlo <somlo@cmu.edu> | ||
Description: | ||
Several different architectures supported by QEMU (x86, arm, | ||
sun4*, ppc/mac) are provisioned with a firmware configuration | ||
(fw_cfg) device, originally intended as a way for the host to | ||
provide configuration data to the guest firmware. Starting | ||
with QEMU v2.4, arbitrary fw_cfg file entries may be specified | ||
by the user on the command line, which makes fw_cfg additionally | ||
useful as an out-of-band, asynchronous mechanism for providing | ||
configuration data to the guest userspace. | ||
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The authoritative guest-side hardware interface documentation | ||
to the fw_cfg device can be found in "docs/specs/fw_cfg.txt" | ||
in the QEMU source tree. | ||
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=== SysFS fw_cfg Interface === | ||
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The fw_cfg sysfs interface described in this document is only | ||
intended to display discoverable blobs (i.e., those registered | ||
with the file directory), as there is no way to determine the | ||
presence or size of "legacy" blobs (with selector keys between | ||
0x0002 and 0x0018) programmatically. | ||
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All fw_cfg information is shown under: | ||
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/sys/firmware/qemu_fw_cfg/ | ||
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The only legacy blob displayed is the fw_cfg device revision: | ||
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/sys/firmware/qemu_fw_cfg/rev | ||
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--- Discoverable fw_cfg blobs by selector key --- | ||
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All discoverable blobs listed in the fw_cfg file directory are | ||
displayed as entries named after their unique selector key | ||
value, e.g.: | ||
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/sys/firmware/qemu_fw_cfg/by_key/32 | ||
/sys/firmware/qemu_fw_cfg/by_key/33 | ||
/sys/firmware/qemu_fw_cfg/by_key/34 | ||
... | ||
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Each such fw_cfg sysfs entry has the following values exported | ||
as attributes: | ||
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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 | ||
directory. | ||
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 | ||
entry via the control register, and reading a number | ||
of bytes equal to the blob size from the data | ||
register. |
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