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efi: Add 'systab' information to Documentation/ABI

It's not clear right now that the order in which entries are displayed
in /sys/firmware/efi/systab actually forms an ABI that userspace tools
rely upon.

Document the ABI along with the userspace tool that cares.

Suggested-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>
Cc: Leif Lindholm <leif.lindholm@linaro.org>
Cc: Ivan Khoronzhuk <ivan.khoronzhuk@globallogic.com>
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>

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Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-firmware-efi
··· 18 18 Description: It shows the physical address of config table entry in the EFI 19 19 system table. 20 20 Users: Kexec 21 + 22 + What: /sys/firmware/efi/systab 23 + Date: April 2005 24 + Contact: linux-efi@vger.kernel.org 25 + Description: Displays the physical addresses of all EFI Configuration 26 + Tables found via the EFI System Table. The order in 27 + which the tables are printed forms an ABI and newer 28 + versions are always printed first, i.e. ACPI20 comes 29 + before ACPI. 30 + Users: dmidecode