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1 What:           /sys/kernel/boot_params
2 Date:           December 2013
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
10                 not be created.
12                 "data" file is the binary representation of struct boot_params.
14                 "version" file is the string representation of boot
15                 protocol version.
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:
27                 /sys/kernel/boot_params
28                 |__ data
29                 |__ setup_data
30                 |   |__ 0
31                 |   |   |__ data
32                 |   |   |__ type
33                 |   |__ 1
34                 |       |__ data
35                 |       |__ type
36                 |__ version
38 Users:          Kexec