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From: Tiezhu Yang <yangtiezhu@loongson.cn>
To: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de>,
	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>, Huacai Chen <chenhc@lemote.com>,
	Jiaxun Yang <jiaxun.yang@flygoat.com>
Cc: linux-mips@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, Xuefeng Li <lixuefeng@loongson.cn>
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Documentation: ABI: Add /sys/firmware/lefi/boardinfo description for Loongson64
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2020 13:55:02 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1602568502-18044-3-git-send-email-yangtiezhu@loongson.cn> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1602568502-18044-1-git-send-email-yangtiezhu@loongson.cn>

Add a description for /sys/firmware/lefi/boardinfo on the Loongson
platform.

Signed-off-by: Tiezhu Yang <yangtiezhu@loongson.cn>
---
 .../ABI/testing/sysfs-firmware-lefi-boardinfo      | 35 ++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 35 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-firmware-lefi-boardinfo

diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-firmware-lefi-boardinfo b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-firmware-lefi-boardinfo
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..5e3f614
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-firmware-lefi-boardinfo
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+What:		/sys/firmware/lefi/boardinfo
+Date:		October 2020
+Contact:	Tiezhu Yang <yangtiezhu@loongson.cn>
+Description:
+		Get mainboard and BIOS info easily on the Loongson platform,
+		this is useful to point out the current used mainboard type
+		and BIOS version when there exists problems related with
+		hardware or firmware.
+
+		The related structures are already defined in the interface
+		specification about firmware and kernel which are common
+		requirement and specific for Loongson64, so only add a new
+		boardinfo.c file in arch/mips/loongson64.
+
+		For example:
+
+		[loongson@linux ~]$ cat /sys/firmware/lefi/boardinfo
+		Board Info
+		Manufacturer            : LEMOTE
+		Board Name              : LEMOTE-LS3A4000-7A1000-1w-V01-pc
+		Family                  : LOONGSON3
+
+		BIOS Info
+		Vendor                  : Kunlun
+		Version                 : Kunlun-A1901-V4.1.3-20200414093938
+		ROM Size                : 4 KB
+		Release Date            : 2020-04-14
+
+		By the way, using dmidecode command can get the similar info if there
+		exists SMBIOS in firmware, but the fact is that there is no SMBIOS on
+		some machines, we can see nothing when execute dmidecode, like this:
+
+		[root@linux loongson]# dmidecode
+		# dmidecode 2.12
+		# No SMBIOS nor DMI entry point found, sorry.
-- 
2.1.0


      parent reply	other threads:[~2020-10-13  5:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-10-13  5:55 [PATCH 0/2] Add /sys/firmware/lefi/boardinfo for Loongson64 Tiezhu Yang
2020-10-13  5:55 ` [PATCH 1/2] MIPS: Loongson64: Add /sys/firmware/lefi/boardinfo Tiezhu Yang
2020-10-13  5:55 ` Tiezhu Yang [this message]

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