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+What: /sys/firmware/efi/esrt/
+Date: February 2015
+Contact: Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com>
+Description: Provides userland access to read the EFI System Resource Table
+ (ESRT), a catalog of firmware for which can be updated with
+ the UEFI UpdateCapsule mechanism described in section 7.5 of
+ the UEFI Standard.
+Users: fwupdate - https://github.com/rhinstaller/fwupdate
+
+What: /sys/firmware/efi/esrt/fw_resource_count
+Date: February 2015
+Contact: Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com>
+Description: The number of entries in the ESRT
+
+What: /sys/firmware/efi/esrt/fw_resource_count_max
+Date: February 2015
+Contact: Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com>
+Description: The maximum number of entries that /could/ be registered
+ in the allocation the table is currently in. This is
+ really only useful to the system firmware itself.
+
+What: /sys/firmware/efi/esrt/fw_resource_version
+Date: February 2015
+Contact: Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com>
+Description: The version of the ESRT structure provided by the firmware.
+
+What: /sys/firmware/efi/esrt/entries/entry$N/
+Date: February 2015
+Contact: Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com>
+Description: Each ESRT entry is identified by a GUID, and each gets a
+ subdirectory under entries/ .
+ example: /sys/firmware/efi/esrt/entries/entry0/
+
+What: /sys/firmware/efi/esrt/entries/entry$N/fw_type
+Date: February 2015
+Contact: Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com>
+Description: What kind of firmware entry this is:
+ 0 - Unknown
+ 1 - System Firmware
+ 2 - Device Firmware
+ 3 - UEFI Driver
+
+What: /sys/firmware/efi/esrt/entries/entry$N/fw_class
+Date: February 2015
+Contact: Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com>
+Description: This is the entry's guid, and will match the directory name.
+
+What: /sys/firmware/efi/esrt/entries/entry$N/fw_version
+Date: February 2015
+Contact: Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com>
+Description: The version of the firmware currently installed. This is a
+ 32-bit unsigned integer.
+
+What: /sys/firmware/efi/esrt/entries/entry$N/lowest_supported_fw_version
+Date: February 2015
+Contact: Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com>
+Description: The lowest version of the firmware that can be installed.
+
+What: /sys/firmware/efi/esrt/entries/entry$N/capsule_flags
+Date: February 2015
+Contact: Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com>
+Description: Flags that must be passed to UpdateCapsule()
+
+What: /sys/firmware/efi/esrt/entries/entry$N/last_attempt_version
+Date: February 2015
+Contact: Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com>
+Description: The last firmware version for which an update was attempted.
+
+What: /sys/firmware/efi/esrt/entries/entry$N/last_attempt_status
+Date: February 2015
+Contact: Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com>
+Description: The result of the last firmware update attempt for the
+ firmware resource entry.
+ 0 - Success
+ 1 - Insufficient resources
+ 2 - Incorrect version
+ 3 - Invalid format
+ 4 - Authentication error
+ 5 - AC power event
+ 6 - Battery power event
+