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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/efivarfs.txt | 7 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/timers/hpet.txt | 4 |
2 files changed, 8 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/efivarfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/efivarfs.txt index c477af086e65..686a64bba775 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/efivarfs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/efivarfs.txt @@ -14,3 +14,10 @@ filesystem. efivarfs is typically mounted like this, mount -t efivarfs none /sys/firmware/efi/efivars + +Due to the presence of numerous firmware bugs where removing non-standard +UEFI variables causes the system firmware to fail to POST, efivarfs +files that are not well-known standardized variables are created +as immutable files. This doesn't prevent removal - "chattr -i" will work - +but it does prevent this kind of failure from being accomplished +accidentally. diff --git a/Documentation/timers/hpet.txt b/Documentation/timers/hpet.txt index 767392ffd31e..a484d2c109d7 100644 --- a/Documentation/timers/hpet.txt +++ b/Documentation/timers/hpet.txt @@ -1,9 +1,7 @@ High Precision Event Timer Driver for Linux The High Precision Event Timer (HPET) hardware follows a specification -by Intel and Microsoft which can be found at - - http://www.intel.com/hardwaredesign/hpetspec_1.pdf +by Intel and Microsoft, revision 1. Each HPET has one fixed-rate counter (at 10+ MHz, hence "High Precision") and up to 32 comparators. Normally three or more comparators are provided, |