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We know that with some firmware implementations writing too much data to UEFI variables can lead to bricking machines. Recent changes attempt to address this issue, but for some it may still be prudent to avoid writing large amounts of data until the solution has been proven on a wide variety of hardware. Crash dumps or other data from pstore can potentially be a large data source. Add a pstore_module parameter to efivars to allow disabling its use as a backend for pstore. Also add a config option, CONFIG_EFI_VARS_PSTORE_DEFAULT_DISABLE, to allow setting the default value of this paramter to true (i.e. disabled by default). Signed-off-by: Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@canonical.com> Cc: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@redhat.com> Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org> Cc: Seiji Aguchi <seiji.aguchi@hds.com> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
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# For a description of the syntax of this configuration file,
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# see Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.txt.
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menu "Firmware Drivers"
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config EDD
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tristate "BIOS Enhanced Disk Drive calls determine boot disk"
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depends on X86
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help
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Say Y or M here if you want to enable BIOS Enhanced Disk Drive
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Services real mode BIOS calls to determine which disk
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BIOS tries boot from. This information is then exported via sysfs.
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This option is experimental and is known to fail to boot on some
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obscure configurations. Most disk controller BIOS vendors do
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not yet implement this feature.
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config EDD_OFF
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bool "Sets default behavior for EDD detection to off"
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depends on EDD
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default n
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help
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Say Y if you want EDD disabled by default, even though it is compiled into the
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kernel. Say N if you want EDD enabled by default. EDD can be dynamically set
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using the kernel parameter 'edd={on|skipmbr|off}'.
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config FIRMWARE_MEMMAP
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bool "Add firmware-provided memory map to sysfs" if EXPERT
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default X86
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help
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Add the firmware-provided (unmodified) memory map to /sys/firmware/memmap.
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That memory map is used for example by kexec to set up parameter area
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for the next kernel, but can also be used for debugging purposes.
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See also Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-firmware-memmap.
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config EFI_VARS
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tristate "EFI Variable Support via sysfs"
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depends on EFI
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default n
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help
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If you say Y here, you are able to get EFI (Extensible Firmware
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Interface) variable information via sysfs. You may read,
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write, create, and destroy EFI variables through this interface.
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Note that using this driver in concert with efibootmgr requires
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at least test release version 0.5.0-test3 or later, which is
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available from Matt Domsch's website located at:
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<http://linux.dell.com/efibootmgr/testing/efibootmgr-0.5.0-test3.tar.gz>
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Subsequent efibootmgr releases may be found at:
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<http://linux.dell.com/efibootmgr>
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config EFI_VARS_PSTORE
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bool "Register efivars backend for pstore"
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depends on EFI_VARS && PSTORE
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default y
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help
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Say Y here to enable use efivars as a backend to pstore. This
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will allow writing console messages, crash dumps, or anything
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else supported by pstore to EFI variables.
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config EFI_VARS_PSTORE_DEFAULT_DISABLE
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bool "Disable using efivars as a pstore backend by default"
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depends on EFI_VARS_PSTORE
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default n
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help
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Saying Y here will disable the use of efivars as a storage
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backend for pstore by default. This setting can be overridden
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using the efivars module's pstore_disable parameter.
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config EFI_PCDP
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bool "Console device selection via EFI PCDP or HCDP table"
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depends on ACPI && EFI && IA64
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default y if IA64
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help
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If your firmware supplies the PCDP table, and you want to
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automatically use the primary console device it describes
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as the Linux console, say Y here.
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If your firmware supplies the HCDP table, and you want to
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use the first serial port it describes as the Linux console,
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say Y here. If your EFI ConOut path contains only a UART
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device, it will become the console automatically. Otherwise,
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you must specify the "console=hcdp" kernel boot argument.
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Neither the PCDP nor the HCDP affects naming of serial devices,
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so a serial console may be /dev/ttyS0, /dev/ttyS1, etc, depending
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on how the driver discovers devices.
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You must also enable the appropriate drivers (serial, VGA, etc.)
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See DIG64_HCDPv20_042804.pdf available from
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<http://www.dig64.org/specifications/>
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config DELL_RBU
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tristate "BIOS update support for DELL systems via sysfs"
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depends on X86
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select FW_LOADER
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help
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Say m if you want to have the option of updating the BIOS for your
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DELL system. Note you need a Dell OpenManage or Dell Update package (DUP)
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supporting application to communicate with the BIOS regarding the new
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image for the image update to take effect.
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See <file:Documentation/dell_rbu.txt> for more details on the driver.
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config DCDBAS
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tristate "Dell Systems Management Base Driver"
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depends on X86
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help
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The Dell Systems Management Base Driver provides a sysfs interface
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for systems management software to perform System Management
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Interrupts (SMIs) and Host Control Actions (system power cycle or
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power off after OS shutdown) on certain Dell systems.
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See <file:Documentation/dcdbas.txt> for more details on the driver
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and the Dell systems on which Dell systems management software makes
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use of this driver.
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Say Y or M here to enable the driver for use by Dell systems
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management software such as Dell OpenManage.
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config DMIID
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bool "Export DMI identification via sysfs to userspace"
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depends on DMI
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default y
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help
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Say Y here if you want to query SMBIOS/DMI system identification
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information from userspace through /sys/class/dmi/id/ or if you want
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DMI-based module auto-loading.
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config DMI_SYSFS
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tristate "DMI table support in sysfs"
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depends on SYSFS && DMI
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default n
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help
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Say Y or M here to enable the exporting of the raw DMI table
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data via sysfs. This is useful for consuming the data without
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requiring any access to /dev/mem at all. Tables are found
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under /sys/firmware/dmi when this option is enabled and
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loaded.
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config ISCSI_IBFT_FIND
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bool "iSCSI Boot Firmware Table Attributes"
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depends on X86
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default n
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help
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This option enables the kernel to find the region of memory
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in which the ISCSI Boot Firmware Table (iBFT) resides. This
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is necessary for iSCSI Boot Firmware Table Attributes module to work
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properly.
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config ISCSI_IBFT
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tristate "iSCSI Boot Firmware Table Attributes module"
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select ISCSI_BOOT_SYSFS
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depends on ISCSI_IBFT_FIND && SCSI && SCSI_LOWLEVEL
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default n
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help
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This option enables support for detection and exposing of iSCSI
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Boot Firmware Table (iBFT) via sysfs to userspace. If you wish to
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detect iSCSI boot parameters dynamically during system boot, say Y.
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Otherwise, say N.
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source "drivers/firmware/google/Kconfig"
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endmenu
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