1.\"- 2.\" SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-2-Clause-FreeBSD 3.\" 4.\" Copyright (c) 2018 Kyle Evans <kevans@FreeBSD.org> 5.\" 6.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 7.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 8.\" are met: 9.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 10.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 11.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 12.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 13.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 14.\" 15.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 16.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 17.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 18.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 19.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 20.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 21.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 22.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 23.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 24.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 25.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 26.\" 27.\" $FreeBSD: head/share/man/man4/efidev.4 338121 2018-08-20 22:16:15Z 0mp $ 28.\" 29.Dd December 15, 2018 30.Dt EFIDEV 4 31.Os 32.Sh NAME 33.Nm efidev , 34.Nm efirtc 35.Nd user-mode access to UEFI runtime services 36.Sh SYNOPSIS 37To compile this driver into the kernel, place the following lines in your 38kernel configuration file: 39.Bd -ragged -offset -indent 40.Cd "options EFIRT" 41.Ed 42.Pp 43Alternatively, to load the driver as a module at boot time, place the following 44line in 45.Xr loader.conf 5 : 46.Bd -literal -offset indent 47efirt_load="YES" 48.Ed 49.\".Pp 50.\"The driver may be disabled by setting the 51.\".Xr loader 8 52.\"tunable 53.\".Va efi.rt.disabled 54.\"to 55.\".Dq Li 1 . 56.Sh DESCRIPTION 57The 58.Nm 59device provides user-mode access to UEFI runtime services. 60.Nm 61also includes a driver to provide a time-of-day clock using the UEFI 62real time clock (RTC). 63However, the RTC may not always be available, based on the UEFI firmware. 64If the RTC is not available, it will not be registered as a time-of-day clock 65and the time related ioctls below will not be functional. 66.Pp 67.Nm 68provides the following ioctls defined in 69.In sys/efiio.h 70with supplemental structures and constants defined in 71.In sys/efi.h : 72.Bl -tag -width indent 73.It Dv EFIIOC_GET_TABLE Pq Vt "struct efi_get_table_ioc" 74Get a table by uuid from the UEFI system table. 75.Bd -literal -offset indent 76struct efi_get_table_ioc { 77 struct uuid uuid; 78 void *ptr; 79}; 80.Ed 81.It Dv EFIIOC_GET_TIME Pq Vt "struct efi_tm" 82Get the time from the RTC, if the RTC is available. 83The 84.Vt struct efi_tm 85passed is populated with the current time, unless an error occurs. 86.Bd -literal -offset indent 87struct efi_tm { 88 uint16_t tm_year; 89 uint8_t tm_mon 90 uint8_t tm_mday 91 uint8_t tm_hour; 92 uint8_t tm_min; 93 uint8_t tm_sec; 94 uint8_t __pad1; 95 uint32_t tm_nsec; 96 int16_t tm_tz; 97 uint8_t tm_dst; 98 uint8_t __pad2; 99}; 100.Ed 101.It Dv EFIIOC_SET_TIME Pq Vt "struct efi_tm" 102Sets the time stored by the RTC, if the RTC is available. 103.It Dv EFIIOC_VAR_GET Pq Vt "struct efi_var_ioc" 104Gets data from the variable described by the vendor and name fields of the 105.Vt struct efi_var_ioc 106into the 107.Fa data 108field. 109.Dv EFIIOC_VAR_GET Pq Vt "struct efi_var_ioc" 110will also populate the 111.Fa attrib 112field. 113.Bd -literal 114struct efi_var_ioc { 115 efi_char *name; 116 size_t namesize; 117 struct uuid vendor; 118 uint32_t attrib; 119 void *data; 120 size_t datasize; 121}; 122.Ed 123.It Dv EFIIOC_VAR_NEXT Pq Vt "struct efi_var_ioc" 124Used for enumerating all UEFI variables. 125The initial call should use an empty string for the name attribute. 126Subsequent calls should supply the vendor uuid and name of the last variable 127returned. 128.It Dv EFIIOC_VAR_SET Pq Vt "struct efi_var_ioc" 129Sets data and attributes for the variable described by the name and vendor in 130the 131.Vt struct efi_var_ioc . 132.El 133.Sh FILES 134.Bl -tag -width /dev/efi 135.It Pa /dev/efi 136.El 137.Sh SEE ALSO 138.Xr efivar 3 , 139.Xr efirt 9 140.Sh HISTORY 141A 142.Nm 143device first appeared in 144.Fx 11.1 . 145.\".Sh BUGS 146.\".Nm 147.\"is currently only available on amd64 and arm64. 148