Documentation: syfs-class-firmware-attributes: Lenovo Certificate support
authorMark Pearson <markpearson@lenovo.com>
Thu, 17 Mar 2022 21:40:07 +0000 (17:40 -0400)
committerHans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
Fri, 18 Mar 2022 11:07:06 +0000 (12:07 +0100)
commit06384573a3e8335ac6797577e545c33dbf91b490
tree8dc7ed0d36e2fbe1b2d65b453fe58e852e0bbc72
parent0c2c21a1fa5b7612fa874b08252e06b34aa4e14a
Documentation: syfs-class-firmware-attributes: Lenovo Certificate support

Certificate based authentication is available as an alternative to
password based authentication.

The WMI commands are cryptographically signed using a separate
signing server and will be verified by the BIOS before being
accepted.

This commit details the fields that are needed to support that
implementation. At present the changes are intended for Lenovo
platforms, but have been designed to keep them as flexible as possible
for future implementations from other vendors.

Signed-off-by: Mark Pearson <markpearson@lenovo.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220317214008.3459-1-markpearson@lenovo.com
Reviewed-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-firmware-attributes