linux/drivers/firmware
Matt Fleming 4423d779af efivars: Keep a private global pointer to efivars
Some machines have an EFI variable interface that does not conform to
the UEFI specification, e.g. CONFIG_GOOGLE_SMI. Add the necessary code
so that it's only possible to use one implementation of EFI variable
operations at runtime. This allows us to keep a single (file-scope)
global pointer 'struct efivars', which simplifies access. This will
hopefully dissuade developers from accessing the generic operations
struct directly in the future, as was done in the efivarfs and pstore
code, thereby allowing future code to work with both the generic efivar
ops and the google SMI ops.

This may seem like a step backwards in terms of modularity, but we don't
need to track more than one 'struct efivars' at one time. There is no
synchronisation done between multiple EFI variable operations, and
according to Mike no one is using both the generic EFI var ops and
CONFIG_GOOGLE_SMI simultaneously, though a single kernel build _does_
need to able to support both. It also helps to clearly highlight which
functions form the core of the efivars interface - those that require
access to __efivars.

Reviewed-by: Tom Gundersen <teg@jklm.no>
Tested-by: Tom Gundersen <teg@jklm.no>
Acked-by: Mike Waychison <mikew@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
2013-04-17 08:30:06 +01:00
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google efi: move utf16 string functions to efi.h 2013-04-17 08:28:21 +01:00
dcdbas.c Drivers: misc: remove __dev* attributes. 2013-01-03 15:57:16 -08:00
dcdbas.h dcdbas: export functionality for use in other drivers 2009-01-08 08:31:12 -08:00
dell_rbu.c sysfs: add struct file* to bin_attr callbacks 2010-05-21 09:37:31 -07:00
dmi_scan.c dmi_scan: fix missing check for _DMI_ signature in smbios_present() 2013-03-08 15:05:34 -08:00
dmi-id.c dmi-id: fix a memory leak in dmi_id_init error path 2010-08-05 13:53:34 -07:00
dmi-sysfs.c firmware: Fix unaligned memory accesses in dmi-sysfs 2011-02-25 16:10:03 -08:00
edd.c [SCSI] edd: Treat "XPRS" host bus type the same as "PCI" 2011-10-31 13:26:19 +04:00
efivars.c efivars: Keep a private global pointer to efivars 2013-04-17 08:30:06 +01:00
iscsi_ibft_find.c efi: Make 'efi_enabled' a function to query EFI facilities 2013-01-30 11:51:59 -08:00
iscsi_ibft.c switch ->is_visible() to returning umode_t 2012-01-03 22:54:55 -05:00
Kconfig efivars: Add module parameter to disable use as a pstore backend 2013-03-21 12:43:46 +00:00
Makefile ASoC: Move SigmaDSP firmware loader to ASoC 2011-11-29 12:01:10 +00:00
memmap.c memory-hotplug: remove /sys/firmware/memmap/X sysfs 2013-02-23 17:50:12 -08:00
pcdp.c pcdp: use early_ioremap/early_iounmap to access pcdp table 2012-07-30 17:25:11 -07:00
pcdp.h Update broken web addresses in the kernel. 2010-10-18 11:03:14 +02:00