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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-coredump | 10 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/driver-api/firmware/built-in-fw.rst | 7 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/driver-api/firmware/fallback-mechanisms.rst | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/x86/microcode.txt | 5 |
4 files changed, 14 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-coredump b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-coredump new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..e459368533a4 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-coredump @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +What: /sys/devices/.../coredump +Date: December 2017 +Contact: Arend van Spriel <aspriel@gmail.com> +Description: + The /sys/devices/.../coredump attribute is only present when the + device is bound to a driver, which provides the .coredump() + callback. The attribute is write only. Anything written to this + file will trigger the .coredump() callback. + + Available when CONFIG_DEV_COREDUMP is enabled. diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/firmware/built-in-fw.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/firmware/built-in-fw.rst index 7300e66857f8..396cdf591ac5 100644 --- a/Documentation/driver-api/firmware/built-in-fw.rst +++ b/Documentation/driver-api/firmware/built-in-fw.rst @@ -11,13 +11,8 @@ options: * CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE * CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE_DIR -This should not be confused with CONFIG_FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL, this is for drivers -which enables firmware to be built as part of the kernel build process. This -option, CONFIG_FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL, will build all firmware for all drivers -enabled which ship its firmware inside the Linux kernel source tree. - There are a few reasons why you might want to consider building your firmware -into the kernel with CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE though: +into the kernel with CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE: * Speed * Firmware is needed for accessing the boot device, and the user doesn't diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/firmware/fallback-mechanisms.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/firmware/fallback-mechanisms.rst index d19354794e67..4055ac76b288 100644 --- a/Documentation/driver-api/firmware/fallback-mechanisms.rst +++ b/Documentation/driver-api/firmware/fallback-mechanisms.rst @@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ via fw_create_instance(). This call creates a new struct device named after the firmware requested, and establishes it in the device hierarchy by associating the device used to make the request as the device's parent. The sysfs directory's file attributes are defined and controlled through -the new device's class (firmare_class) and group (fw_dev_attr_groups). +the new device's class (firmware_class) and group (fw_dev_attr_groups). This is actually where the original firmware_class.c file name comes from, as originally the only firmware loading mechanism available was the mechanism we now use as a fallback mechanism. diff --git a/Documentation/x86/microcode.txt b/Documentation/x86/microcode.txt index f57e1b45e628..79fdb4a8148a 100644 --- a/Documentation/x86/microcode.txt +++ b/Documentation/x86/microcode.txt @@ -108,12 +108,11 @@ packages already put them there. ==================== The loader supports also loading of a builtin microcode supplied through -the regular firmware builtin method CONFIG_FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL. Only -64-bit is currently supported. +the regular builtin firmware method CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE. Only 64-bit is +currently supported. Here's an example: -CONFIG_FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL=y CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE="intel-ucode/06-3a-09 amd-ucode/microcode_amd_fam15h.bin" CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE_DIR="/lib/firmware" |