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* [PATCH v7 0/2] Enable capsule loader interface for efi firmware updating
@ 2015-10-05 20:15 Kweh, Hock Leong
  2015-10-05 20:15 ` [PATCH v7 1/2] efi: export efi_capsule_supported() function symbol Kweh, Hock Leong
  2015-10-05 20:15 ` [PATCH v7 2/2] efi: a misc char interface for user to update efi firmware Kweh, Hock Leong
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 13+ messages in thread
From: Kweh, Hock Leong @ 2015-10-05 20:15 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Matt Fleming, Greg Kroah-Hartman
  Cc: Ong Boon Leong, LKML, linux-efi, Sam Protsenko, Peter Jones,
	Andy Lutomirski, Roy Franz, Borislav Petkov, James Bottomley,
	Linux FS Devel, Kweh, Hock Leong, Fleming Matt

From: "Kweh, Hock Leong" <hock.leong.kweh@intel.com>

Dear maintainers & communities,

This patchset is created on top of Matt's patchset:
1.)https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/10/7/390
"[PATCH 1/2] efi: Move efi_status_to_err() to efi.h"
2.)https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/10/7/391
"[PATCH 2/2] efi: Capsule update support"

It expose a misc char interface for user to upload the capsule binary and
calling efi_capsule_update() API to pass the binary to EFI firmware.

The steps to update efi firmware are:
1.) cat firmware.cap > /dev/efi_capsule_loader
2.) reboot

Any failed upload error message will be returned while doing "cat" through
Write() function call.

Tested the code with Intel Quark Galileo platform.

Thanks.

---
NOTE:
If Matt agrees with this design, [PATCH v7 1/1] will be squash into his
[PATCH 2/2]: https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/10/7/391 for submitting

changelog v7:
* add successful message printed in dmesg
* shorten the code in efi_capsule_write() by splitting out
  efi_capsule_setup_info() & efi_capsule_submit_update() functions
* design added capability to support multiple file open action
* re-write those comments by following standard format
* design added the "uncomplete" error return through flush() file operation

changelog v6:
* clean up on error handling for better code flow and review
* clean up on pr_err() for critical error only
* design taking care writing block that below PAGE_SIZE
* once error has occurred, design will return -EIO until file close
* document design expectations/scenarios in the code
* change the dynamic allocation cap_info struct to statically allocated

changelog v5:
* changed to new design without leveraging firmware_class API
* use misc_char device interface instead of sysfs
* error return through file Write() function call


Kweh, Hock Leong (2):
  efi: export efi_capsule_supported() function symbol
  efi: a misc char interface for user to update efi firmware

 drivers/firmware/efi/Kconfig              |   10
 drivers/firmware/efi/Makefile             |    1
 drivers/firmware/efi/capsule.c            |    1
 drivers/firmware/efi/efi-capsule-loader.c |  336 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 4 files changed, 348 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 drivers/firmware/efi/efi-capsule-loader.c

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1.7.9.5


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2015-10-05 13:13   ` Borislav Petkov
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2015-10-10 22:02     ` Matt Fleming
2015-10-11 14:28       ` Kweh, Hock Leong
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