On Lenovo platforms there is a limitation in the number of times an
attribute can be saved. This is an architectural limitation and it limits
the number of attributes that can be modified to 48.
A solution for this is instead of the attribute being saved after every
modification allow a user to bulk set the attributes and then trigger a
final save. This allows unlimited attributes.
This patch introduces a save_settings attribute that can be configured to
either single or bulk mode by the user.
Single mode is the default but customers who want to avoid the 48
attribute limit can enable bulk mode.
Displaying the save_settings attribute will display the enabled mode.
When in bulk mode writing 'save' to the save_settings attribute will
trigger a save. Once this has been done a reboot is required before more
attributes can be modified.
Signed-off-by: Mark Pearson <mpearson-lenovo@squebb.ca>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230919141530.4805-1-mpearson-lenovo@squebb.ca
Reviewed-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
Update sysfs-class-firmware-attributes with hp-bioscfg information
HP BIOS Configuration driver purpose is to provide a driver supporting
the latest sysfs class firmware attributes framework allowing the user
to change BIOS settings and security solutions on HP Inc.’s commercial
notebooks.
Signed-off-by: Jorge Lopez <jorge.lopez2@hp.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230608163319.18934-2-jorge.lopez2@hp.com
Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
Certificate based authentication is available as an alternative to
password based authentication.
The WMI commands are cryptographically signed using a separate
signing server and will be verified by the BIOS before being
accepted.
This commit details the fields that are needed to support that
implementation. At present the changes are intended for Lenovo
platforms, but have been designed to keep them as flexible as possible
for future implementations from other vendors.
Signed-off-by: Mark Pearson <markpearson@lenovo.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220317214008.3459-1-markpearson@lenovo.com
Reviewed-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
The Description: tag is missing on some places, causing
scripts/get_abi.pl warnings:
Warning: file Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-firmware-attributes#172:
What '/sys/class/firmware-attributes/*/authentication/' doesn't have a description
Also, some warnings are produced when generating html documentation:
.../Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-firmware-attributes:2: WARNING: Title underline too short.
Dell specific class extensions
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.../Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-firmware-attributes:2: WARNING: Unexpected indentation.
.../Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-firmware-attributes:2: WARNING: Unexpected indentation.
.../Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-firmware-attributes:2: WARNING: Block quote ends without a blank line; unexpected unindent.
.../Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-firmware-attributes:173: WARNING: Unexpected indentation.
.../Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-firmware-attributes:173: WARNING: Unexpected indentation.
.../Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-firmware-attributes:173: WARNING: Block quote ends without a blank line; unexpected unindent.
.../Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-firmware-attributes:111: WARNING: Inline emphasis start-string without end-string.
Address the warnings, making it to produce the expected
output for the documentation ABI.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/44b4181b4f772fcc5ec676e72b295c10df35121b.1603963862.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
