From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To: "Kweh, Hock Leong" <hock.leong.kweh@intel.com>
Cc: Matt Fleming <matt@console-pimps.org>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
Ong Boon Leong <boon.leong.ong@intel.com>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-efi@vger.kernel.org,
Sam Protsenko <semen.protsenko@linaro.org>,
Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com>,
Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>,
Roy Franz <roy.franz@linaro.org>,
James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@hansenpartnership.com>,
Linux FS Devel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
Fleming Matt <matt.fleming@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 0/2] Enable capsule loader interface for efi firmware updating
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2015 19:37:04 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151002173704.GD16538@pd.tnic> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1443733554-22743-1-git-send-email-hock.leong.kweh@intel.com>
On Fri, Oct 02, 2015 at 05:05:52AM +0800, Kweh, Hock Leong wrote:
> 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.
What does the error case look like? A standard glibc message about
write(2) failing?
--
Regards/Gruss,
Boris.
ECO tip #101: Trim your mails when you reply.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-10-02 17:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-10-01 21:05 [PATCH v6 0/2] Enable capsule loader interface for efi firmware updating Kweh, Hock Leong
2015-10-01 21:05 ` [PATCH v6 1/2] efi: export efi_capsule_supported() function symbol Kweh, Hock Leong
2015-10-02 17:37 ` Borislav Petkov
[not found] ` <20151002173716.GE16538-fF5Pk5pvG8Y@public.gmane.org>
2015-10-03 3:02 ` Kweh, Hock Leong
[not found] ` <F54AEECA5E2B9541821D670476DAE19C4A8641CE-j2khPEwRog0FyVwBAnZdSLfspsVTdybXVpNB7YpNyf8@public.gmane.org>
2015-10-03 8:59 ` Borislav Petkov
[not found] ` <1443733554-22743-1-git-send-email-hock.leong.kweh-ral2JQCrhuEAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2015-10-01 21:05 ` [PATCH v6 2/2] efi: a misc char interface for user to update efi firmware Kweh, Hock Leong
2015-10-02 17:39 ` Borislav Petkov
2015-10-03 23:16 ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-10-02 17:37 ` Borislav Petkov [this message]
[not found] ` <20151002173704.GD16538-fF5Pk5pvG8Y@public.gmane.org>
2015-10-03 3:18 ` [PATCH v6 0/2] Enable capsule loader interface for efi firmware updating Kweh, Hock Leong
2015-10-03 9:05 ` Borislav Petkov
[not found] ` <20151003090539.GC11942-fF5Pk5pvG8Y@public.gmane.org>
2015-10-05 15:33 ` Kweh, Hock Leong
[not found] ` <F54AEECA5E2B9541821D670476DAE19C4A864658-j2khPEwRog0FyVwBAnZdSLfspsVTdybXVpNB7YpNyf8@public.gmane.org>
2015-10-05 19:07 ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-10-03 4:18 ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-10-03 9:08 ` Borislav Petkov
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