Documentation/driver-api/cxl: BIOS/EFI expectation update
Add a snippet about what Linux expects BIOS/EFI to do (and not to do) to the BIOS/EFI section. Suggested-by: Alejandro Lucero Palau <alucerop@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Gregory Price <gourry@gourry.net> Reviewed-by: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Alejandro Lucero Palau <alucerop@amd.com> Reviewed-by: Jonathan Cameron <jonathan.cameron@huawei.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251219170538.1675743-2-gourry@gourry.net Signed-off-by: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com>
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on physical memory region size and alignment, memory holes, HDM interleave,
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and what linux expects of HDM decoders trying to work with these features.
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Linux Expectations of BIOS/EFI Software
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Linux expects BIOS/EFI software to construct sufficient ACPI tables (such as
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CEDT, SRAT, HMAT, etc) and platform-specific configurations (such as HPA spaces
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and host-bridge interleave configurations) to allow the Linux driver to
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subsequently configure the devices in the CXL fabric at runtime.
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Programming of HDM decoders and switch ports is not required, and may be
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deferred to the CXL driver based on admin policy (e.g. udev rules).
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Some platforms may require pre-programming HDM decoders and locking them
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due to quirks (see: Zen5 address translation), but this is not the normal,
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"expected" configuration path. This should be avoided if possible.
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Some platforms may wish to pre-configure these resources to bring memory
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up without requiring CXL driver support. These platform vendors should
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test their configurations with the existing CXL driver and provide driver
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support for their auto-configurations if features like RAS are required.
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UEFI Settings
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=============
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If your platform supports it, the :code:`uefisettings` command can be used to
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