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authorMark Pearson <markpearson@lenovo.com>2021-11-17 13:44:52 -0500
committerHans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>2021-11-18 10:55:22 +0100
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Documentation: syfs-class-firmware-attributes: Lenovo Opcode support
Newer Lenovo BIOS's have an opcode GUID support interface which provides - improved password setting control - ability to set System, hard drive and NVMe passwords Add the support for these new passwords, and the ability to select user/master mode and the drive index. Signed-off-by: Mark Pearson <markpearson@lenovo.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211117184453.2476-1-markpearson@lenovo.com Reviewed-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
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@@ -161,6 +161,15 @@ Description:
power-on:
Representing a password required to use
the system
+ system-mgmt:
+ Representing System Management password.
+ See Lenovo extensions section for details
+ HDD:
+ Representing HDD password
+ See Lenovo extensions section for details
+ NVMe:
+ Representing NVMe password
+ See Lenovo extensions section for details
mechanism:
The means of authentication. This attribute is mandatory.
@@ -207,6 +216,13 @@ Description:
On Lenovo systems the following additional settings are available:
+ role: system-mgmt This gives the same authority as the bios-admin password to control
+ security related features. The authorities allocated can be set via
+ the BIOS menu SMP Access Control Policy
+
+ role: HDD & NVMe This password is used to unlock access to the drive at boot. Note see
+ 'level' and 'index' extensions below.
+
lenovo_encoding:
The encoding method that is used. This can be either "ascii"
or "scancode". Default is set to "ascii"
@@ -216,6 +232,22 @@ Description:
two char code (e.g. "us", "fr", "gr") and may vary per platform.
Default is set to "us"
+ level:
+ Available for HDD and NVMe authentication to set 'user' or 'master'
+ privilege level.
+ If only the user password is configured then this should be used to
+ unlock the drive at boot. If both master and user passwords are set
+ then either can be used. If a master password is set a user password
+ is required.
+ This attribute defaults to 'user' level
+
+ index:
+ Used with HDD and NVME authentication to set the drive index
+ that is being referenced (e.g hdd0, hdd1 etc)
+ This attribute defaults to device 0.
+
+
+
What: /sys/class/firmware-attributes/*/attributes/pending_reboot
Date: February 2021
KernelVersion: 5.11