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The patch below adds DMI/SMBIOS based module autoloading to the Linux
kernel. The idea is to load laptop drivers automatically (and other
drivers which cannot be autoloaded otherwise), based on the DMI system
identification information of the BIOS.
Right now most distros manually try to load all available laptop
drivers on bootup in the hope that at least one of them loads
successfully. This patch does away with all that, and uses udev to
automatically load matching drivers on the right machines.
Basically the patch just exports the DMI information that has been
parsed by the kernel anyway to userspace via a sysfs device
/sys/class/dmi/id and makes sure that proper modalias attributes are
available. Besides adding the "modalias" attribute it also adds
attributes for a few other DMI fields which might be useful for
writing udev rules.
This patch is not an attempt to export the entire DMI/SMBIOS data to
userspace. We already have "dmidecode" which parses the complete DMI
info from userspace. The purpose of this patch is machine model
identification and good udev integration.
To take advantage of DMI based module autoloading, a driver should
export one or more MODULE_ALIAS fields similar to these:
MODULE_ALIAS("dmi:*:svnMICRO-STARINT'LCO.,LTD:pnMS-1013:pvr0131*:cvnMICRO-STARINT'LCO.,LTD:ct10:*");
MODULE_ALIAS("dmi:*:svnMicro-StarInternational:pnMS-1058:pvr0581:rvnMSI:rnMS-1058:*:ct10:*");
MODULE_ALIAS("dmi:*:svnMicro-StarInternational:pnMS-1412:*:rvnMSI:rnMS-1412:*:cvnMICRO-STARINT'LCO.,LTD:ct10:*");
MODULE_ALIAS("dmi:*:svnNOTEBOOK:pnSAM2000:pvr0131*:cvnMICRO-STARINT'LCO.,LTD:ct10:*");
These lines are specific to my msi-laptop.c driver. They are basically
just a concatenation of a few carefully selected DMI fields with all
potentially bad characters stripped.
Besides laptop drivers, modules like "hdaps", the i2c modules
and the hwmon modules are good candidates for "dmi:" MODULE_ALIAS
lines.
Besides merely exporting the DMI data via sysfs the patch adds
support for a few more DMI fields. Especially the CHASSIS fields are
very useful to identify different laptop modules. The patch also adds
working MODULE_ALIAS lines to my msi-laptop.c driver.
I'd like to thank Kay Sievers for helping me to clean up this patch
for posting it on lkml.
Patch is against Linus' current GIT HEAD. Should probably apply to
older kernels as well without modification.
Signed-off-by: Lennart Poettering <mzxreary@0pointer.de>
Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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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 !IA64
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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 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_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 <http://www.dig64.org/specifications/DIG64_HCDPv20_042804.pdf>
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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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endmenu
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