[PATCH v9 0/4] firmware: Add coreboot CFR firmware attributes driver

From: Sean Rhodes

Date: Mon Jul 27 2026 - 15:51:52 EST


Move the firmware attributes class helper out of platform/x86, rename the
coreboot-table firmware driver directory from google to coreboot, and add a
coreboot CFR firmware attributes driver.

Changes in v9:
- Add the missing kstrtox.h include used by kstrtou32().
- Use a single kobject rollback path when setting registration fails.
- Split a few helper locals for readability, including the pending reboot
device lookup and enum-value population.
- Avoid an intermediate void pointer cast while parsing numeric CFR options.
- Check the possible-values buffer length before computing each label length.

Changes in v8:
- Add a preparatory include-order cleanup before moving the firmware
attributes class helper.
- Add direct includes for __packed and container_of(), use scoped cleanup for
EFI names and the driver mutex, and document the efivar lock requirement on
private helpers.
- Replace the duplicated CFR record walkers with one checked iterator that
distinguishes malformed input from the end of a record list.
- Validate enum entries before accessing them and propagate malformed child
records instead of treating them as absent.
- Restore the EFI variable after a failed runtime apply without retrying the
failed firmware operation, and only emit a change event when the new EFI
value remains stored.
- Document the possible-values size limit and why CFR entries without a usable
runtime EFI variable are skipped.

Testing:
- x86_64 out-of-tree W=1 build of drivers/firmware/coreboot/coreboot-cfr.o.
- checkpatch --strict --git HEAD.
- v8 x86_64 and UML allmodconfig W=1 builds of the driver and helper.
- v8 runtime APM_CNT apply and reboot-needed behavior on a Star Labs Byte with
firmware 26.07 and Linux 6.17.

Sean Rhodes (4):
platform/x86: Sort firmware attributes class includes
firmware: Move firmware attributes class helper
firmware: Rename google firmware directory to coreboot
firmware: coreboot: Add CFR firmware attributes driver

MAINTAINERS | 18 +-
drivers/firmware/Kconfig | 5 +-
drivers/firmware/Makefile | 3 +-
drivers/firmware/{google => coreboot}/Kconfig | 20 +-
.../firmware/{google => coreboot}/Makefile | 1 +
drivers/firmware/{google => coreboot}/cbmem.c | 0
drivers/firmware/coreboot/coreboot-cfr.c | 1193 +++++++++++++++++
.../{google => coreboot}/coreboot_table.c | 0
.../{google => coreboot}/coreboot_table.h | 0
.../framebuffer-coreboot.c | 0
drivers/firmware/{google => coreboot}/gsmi.c | 0
.../memconsole-coreboot.c | 0
.../memconsole-x86-legacy.c | 0
.../{google => coreboot}/memconsole.c | 0
.../{google => coreboot}/memconsole.h | 6 +-
drivers/firmware/{google => coreboot}/vpd.c | 0
.../{google => coreboot}/vpd_decode.c | 0
.../{google => coreboot}/vpd_decode.h | 0
.../firmware_attributes_class.c | 2 +-
drivers/platform/x86/Kconfig | 3 -
drivers/platform/x86/Makefile | 2 -
drivers/platform/x86/asus-armoury.c | 2 +-
.../x86/dell/dell-wmi-sysman/sysman.c | 9 +-
drivers/platform/x86/hp/hp-bioscfg/bioscfg.c | 9 +-
drivers/platform/x86/lenovo/think-lmi.c | 5 +-
drivers/platform/x86/lenovo/wmi-other.c | 2 +-
drivers/platform/x86/samsung-galaxybook.c | 3 +-
.../linux/firmware_attributes.h | 6 +-
28 files changed, 1257 insertions(+), 32 deletions(-)
rename drivers/firmware/{google => coreboot}/Kconfig (82%)
rename drivers/firmware/{google => coreboot}/Makefile (92%)
rename drivers/firmware/{google => coreboot}/cbmem.c (100%)
create mode 100644 drivers/firmware/coreboot/coreboot-cfr.c
rename drivers/firmware/{google => coreboot}/coreboot_table.c (100%)
rename drivers/firmware/{google => coreboot}/coreboot_table.h (100%)
rename drivers/firmware/{google => coreboot}/framebuffer-coreboot.c (100%)
rename drivers/firmware/{google => coreboot}/gsmi.c (100%)
rename drivers/firmware/{google => coreboot}/memconsole-coreboot.c (100%)
rename drivers/firmware/{google => coreboot}/memconsole-x86-legacy.c (100%)
rename drivers/firmware/{google => coreboot}/memconsole.c (100%)
rename drivers/firmware/{google => coreboot}/memconsole.h (82%)
rename drivers/firmware/{google => coreboot}/vpd.c (100%)
rename drivers/firmware/{google => coreboot}/vpd_decode.c (100%)
rename drivers/firmware/{google => coreboot}/vpd_decode.h (100%)
rename drivers/{platform/x86 => firmware}/firmware_attributes_class.c (94%)
rename drivers/platform/x86/firmware_attributes_class.h => include/linux/firmware_attributes.h (60%)