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Documentation: ABI: overlays - global attributes
Documentation ABI entry for overlays sysfs entries. Signed-off-by: Pantelis Antoniou <pantelis.antoniou@konsulko.com> Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>
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What: /sys/firmware/devicetree/overlays/
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Date: October 2015
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Contact: Pantelis Antoniou <pantelis.antoniou@konsulko.com>
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Description:
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This directory contains the applied device tree overlays of
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the running system, as directories of the overlay id.
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What: /sys/firmware/devicetree/overlays/enable
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Date: October 2015
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Contact: Pantelis Antoniou <pantelis.antoniou@konsulko.com>
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Description:
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The master enable switch, by default is 1, and when
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set to 0 it cannot be re-enabled for security reasons.
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The discussion about this switch takes place in:
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http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.drivers.devicetree/101871
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Kees Cook:
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"Coming from the perspective of drawing a bright line between
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kernel and the root user (which tends to start with disabling
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kernel module loading), I would say that there at least needs
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to be a high-level one-way "off" switch for the interface so
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that systems that have this interface can choose to turn it off
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during initial boot, etc."

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