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Documentation: syfs-class-firmware-attributes: Lenovo Opcode support

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Newer Lenovo BIOS's have an opcode GUID support interface which provides
 - improved password setting control
 - ability to set System, hard drive and NVMe passwords

Add the support for these new passwords, and the ability to select
user/master mode and the drive index.

Signed-off-by: Mark Pearson <markpearson@lenovo.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211117184453.2476-1-markpearson@lenovo.com
Reviewed-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
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@ -161,6 +161,15 @@ Description:
power-on:
Representing a password required to use
the system
system-mgmt:
Representing System Management password.
See Lenovo extensions section for details
HDD:
Representing HDD password
See Lenovo extensions section for details
NVMe:
Representing NVMe password
See Lenovo extensions section for details
mechanism:
The means of authentication. This attribute is mandatory.
@ -207,6 +216,13 @@ Description:
On Lenovo systems the following additional settings are available:
role: system-mgmt This gives the same authority as the bios-admin password to control
security related features. The authorities allocated can be set via
the BIOS menu SMP Access Control Policy
role: HDD & NVMe This password is used to unlock access to the drive at boot. Note see
'level' and 'index' extensions below.
lenovo_encoding:
The encoding method that is used. This can be either "ascii"
or "scancode". Default is set to "ascii"
@ -216,6 +232,22 @@ Description:
two char code (e.g. "us", "fr", "gr") and may vary per platform.
Default is set to "us"
level:
Available for HDD and NVMe authentication to set 'user' or 'master'
privilege level.
If only the user password is configured then this should be used to
unlock the drive at boot. If both master and user passwords are set
then either can be used. If a master password is set a user password
is required.
This attribute defaults to 'user' level
index:
Used with HDD and NVME authentication to set the drive index
that is being referenced (e.g hdd0, hdd1 etc)
This attribute defaults to device 0.
What: /sys/class/firmware-attributes/*/attributes/pending_reboot
Date: February 2021
KernelVersion: 5.11