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From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Subject: Re: Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] efi: Capsule update with user helper interface
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2015 13:49:23 +0100
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On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 12:38:20PM +0000, Kweh, Hock Leong wrote:
> The reason we use this interface for efi capsule is that efi capsule
> support multi binaries to be uploaded and each binary file name
> can be different.

So you can write the file path to a second file and reload then, once
per file.

Alternatively, you can combine all the files into a cpio archive like
we do with the microcode loader too, and let the kernel parse the cpio
archive.

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    Boris.

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