Messages in this thread |  | | From | Matt_Domsch@Dell ... | Subject | RE: [RFC][PATCH] x86 BIOS Enhanced Disk Device (EDD) polling | Date | Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:17:17 -0500 |
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> > So in this example, we are exporting a number of boot devices as the > > bios told us, so apply the rule stated above, and determine > > if it should go into /proc or not[1]. > > This is interesting, and I look forward to delving into the > code. ACPI is doing something very similar. One thing I > would like to do is create a 'platform' or 'firmware' > top-level directory in driverfs in which all the > various firmware drivers can display the data they ascertain from the > firmware. Stay tuned..
Likewise, on IA-64, /proc/efi/ has EFI stuff (really only vars/ right now, direct access to NVRAM variables), which coincidentally, I wrote, which would benefit from a top-level 'platform' or 'firmware' directory and migration to driverfs. Code is in arch/ia64/kernel/efivars.c. Once I nail down the EDD code, moving efivars.c to driverfs shouldn't be hard.
> Two examples are attached:
Thanks, that helps a lot. I need to still find how to walk the list of existing devices and gather info, for purposes of making symlinks, but I see the existing devices that do that to use as examples.
Thanks, Matt
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