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From:   Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Date:   Tue, 1 Oct 2019 10:54:40 +0200
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5] efi: Export Runtime Configuration Interface table to sysfs
To:     Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
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On Tue, 1 Oct 2019 at 10:51, Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> wrote:
>
> Hi Ard, Narendra,
>
> On Mon, Aug 12, 2019 at 5:07 PM Ard Biesheuvel
> <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> wrote:
> > From: Narendra K <Narendra.K@dell.com>
> >
> > System firmware advertises the address of the 'Runtime
> > Configuration Interface table version 2 (RCI2)' via
> > an EFI Configuration Table entry. This code retrieves the RCI2
> > table from the address and exports it to sysfs as a binary
> > attribute 'rci2' under /sys/firmware/efi/tables directory.
> > The approach adopted is similar to the attribute 'DMI' under
> > /sys/firmware/dmi/tables.
> >
> > RCI2 table contains BIOS HII in XML format and is used to populate
> > BIOS setup page in Dell EMC OpenManage Server Administrator tool.
> > The BIOS setup page contains BIOS tokens which can be configured.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Narendra K <Narendra.K@dell.com>
> > Reviewed-by: Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@dell.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
>
> Thanks, this is now commit 1c5fecb61255aa12 ("efi: Export Runtime
> Configuration Interface table to sysfs").
>
> > --- a/drivers/firmware/efi/Kconfig
> > +++ b/drivers/firmware/efi/Kconfig
> > @@ -180,6 +180,19 @@ config RESET_ATTACK_MITIGATION
> >           have been evicted, since otherwise it will trigger even on clean
> >           reboots.
> >
> > +config EFI_RCI2_TABLE
> > +       bool "EFI Runtime Configuration Interface Table Version 2 Support"
> > +       help
> > +         Displays the content of the Runtime Configuration Interface
> > +         Table version 2 on Dell EMC PowerEdge systems as a binary
> > +         attribute 'rci2' under /sys/firmware/efi/tables directory.
> > +
> > +         RCI2 table contains BIOS HII in XML format and is used to populate
> > +         BIOS setup page in Dell EMC OpenManage Server Administrator tool.
> > +         The BIOS setup page contains BIOS tokens which can be configured.
> > +
> > +         Say Y here for Dell EMC PowerEdge systems.
>
> A quick Google search tells me these are Intel Xeon.
> Are arm/arm64/ia64 variants available, too?
> If not, this should be protected by "depends on x86" ("|| COMPILE_TEST"?).
>

Hello Geert,

The code in question is entirely architecture agnostic, and defaults
to 'n', so I am not convinced this is needed. (It came up in the
review as well)