linux-kernel - Re: x86 BIOS interface for partitioning and system serial number on SGI UV

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Message-ID: <4897A5FE.9070703@zytor.com>
Date:	Mon, 04 Aug 2008 17:59:42 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Russ Anderson <rja@....com>
CC:	mingo@...e.hu, tglx@...utronix.de, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Jack Steiner <steiner@....com>, Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
Subject: Re: x86 BIOS interface for partitioning and system serial number
 on SGI UV

Russ Anderson wrote:
>> This really seems more that it should belong in sysfs -- 
>> /sys/class/firmware presumably.
> 
> /proc/sgi_uv already exists, similar to /proc/sgi_sn on Itanium systems.
> 
> Would it be /sys/class/firmware?  Reading Documentation/sysfs-rules.txt
> seems to indicate somewhere under /sys/devices, such as /sys/devices/system/,
> but I may be wrong.

/sys/class/firmware is usually where firmware-related things end up, but 
gregkh is the authority on sysfs organization.

	-hpa
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