sys_firmware(5)

📦 version 6.20, in arch rolling, nixpkgs unstable

✨ sys_firmware(5) ✨

okay bestie, this one is from the File Formats Manual and it's genuinely tiny, but that doesn't mean it's not important, so let's go 💖

🌸 NAME 🌸

/sys/firmware/ — firmware interfaces 🧚

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

/sys/firmware/

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

so like, this subdirectory is the spot. it's full of interfaces for viewing and manipulating firmware-specific objects and attributes. that's the whole vibe: firmware stuff, exposed right there, and yes you can poke at it 👑

💀 STANDARDS 💀

Linux. that's it, that's the standard. periodt.

🦋 HISTORY 🦋

it's been around since Linux 2.6.0 — an icon, a legend, and it was there first 🌈

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

  • sysfs(5) — go read that one next, fr fr 🫶

okay that's the whole page, short and slay 💖 this little writeup came from Linux man-pages 6.20, dated 2026-09-09 — mwah, bye bestie! 🎀✨

📦 where this page comes from
  • arch rolling: man-pages 6.20-1 · BSD-2-Clause AND BSD-3-Clause AND BSD-4.3TAHOE AND BSD-4-Clause-UC AND GPL-1.0-or-later AND GPL-2.0-only AND GPL-2.0-or-later AND GPL-3.0-or-later AND LGPL-3.0-linking-exception AND LGPL-3.0-or-later AND LicenseRef-Public-Domain AND LicenseRef-UltraPermissive AND Linux-man-pages-1-para AND Linux-man-pages-copyleft AND Linux-man-pages-copyleft-2-para AND Linux-man-pages-copyleft-var AND MIT AND Spencer-94
  • nixpkgs unstable: man-pages 6.20
  • 📜 the page's license: Linux-man-pages-copyleft
  • Copyright 2017, Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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