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    platform/x86: Intel PMT class driver · e2729113
    Alexander Duyck authored
    Intel Platform Monitoring Technology is meant to provide a common way to
    access telemetry and system metrics.
    
    Register mappings are not provided by the driver. Instead, a GUID is read
    from a header for each endpoint. The GUID identifies the device and is to
    be used with an XML, provided by the vendor, to discover the available set
    of metrics and their register mapping.  This allows firmware updates to
    modify the register space without needing to update the driver every time
    with new mappings. Firmware writes a new GUID in this case to specify the
    new mapping.  Software tools with access to the associated XML file can
    then interpret the changes.
    
    The module manages access to all Intel PMT endpoints on a system,
    independent of the device exporting them. It creates an intel_pmt class
    to manage the devices. For each telemetry endpoint, sysfs files provide
    GUID and size information as well as a pointer to the parent device the
    telemetry came from. Software may discover the association between
    endpoints and devices by iterating through the list in sysfs, or by looking
    for the existence of the class folder under the device of interest.  A
    binary sysfs attribute of the same name allows software to then read or map
    the telemetry space for direct access.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAlexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@linux.intel.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid E. Box <david.e.box@linux.intel.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarHans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>
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