1 What: /sys/kernel/boot_params
3 Contact: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
4 Description: The /sys/kernel/boot_params directory contains two
5 files: "data" and "version" and one subdirectory "setup_data".
6 It is used to export the kernel boot parameters of an x86
7 platform to userspace for kexec and debugging purpose.
9 If there's no setup_data in boot_params the subdirectory will
12 "data" file is the binary representation of struct boot_params.
14 "version" file is the string representation of boot
17 "setup_data" subdirectory contains the setup_data data
18 structure in boot_params. setup_data is maintained in kernel
19 as a link list. In "setup_data" subdirectory there's one
20 subdirectory for each link list node named with the number
21 of the list nodes. The list node subdirectory contains two
22 files "type" and "data". "type" file is the string
23 representation of setup_data type. "data" file is the binary
24 representation of setup_data payload.
26 The whole boot_params directory structure is like below::
28 /sys/kernel/boot_params