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From: AKASHI Takahiro <takahiro.akashi@linaro.org>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [PATCH v2 11/17] efi_loader: add firmware management protocol for FIT image
Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2020 10:03:15 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200622010315.GA8935@laputa> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADg8p970gB4nsji2jHOw7Jj60C-sdEu_jiqBm5WCM=B=nWu=rw@mail.gmail.com>

On Sun, Jun 21, 2020 at 12:09:23AM +0530, Sughosh Ganu wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Jun 2020 at 08:26, AKASHI Takahiro <takahiro.akashi@linaro.org>
> wrote:
> 
> > In this commit, a very simple firmware management protocol driver
> > is implemented. It will take a common FIT image firmware in a capsule
> > file and apply the data using dfu backend storage drivers via
> > update_fit() interface.
> >
> > So "dfu_alt_info" variable should be properly set to specify a device
> > and location to be updated. Please read README.dfu.
> >
> > Fit image is a common file format for firmware update on U-Boot, and
> > this protocol works neatly just as a wrapper for one.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: AKASHI Takahiro <takahiro.akashi@linaro.org>
> > ---
> >  include/efi_api.h             |   4 +
> >  include/efi_loader.h          |   2 +
> >  lib/efi_loader/Kconfig        |  11 ++
> >  lib/efi_loader/Makefile       |   1 +
> >  lib/efi_loader/efi_capsule.c  |  12 +-
> >  lib/efi_loader/efi_firmware.c | 253 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >  6 files changed, 282 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >  create mode 100644 lib/efi_loader/efi_firmware.c
> >
> 
> Like we had discussed this offline, I don't think that efi_firmware.c name
> accurately represents that the file is implementing the firmware management
> protocol. This can be changed to efi_fmp.c, or if you don't prefer
> acronyms, efi_firmware_mgmt_protocol.c

I think that efi_firmware is a good prefix without any confusion
given that there is no other features related to "firmware".

-Takahiro Akashi

> 
> -sughosh

  reply	other threads:[~2020-06-22  1:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-06-17  2:54 [PATCH v2 00/17] efi_loader: add capsule update support AKASHI Takahiro
2020-06-17  2:54 ` [PATCH v2 01/17] common: update_tftp: remove unnecessary build check AKASHI Takahiro
2020-06-17  2:55 ` [PATCH v2 02/17] dfu: add a hidden reverse-dependency on UPDATE_TFTP AKASHI Takahiro
2020-06-17  2:55 ` [PATCH v2 03/17] dfu: rename dfu_tftp_write() to dfu_write_by_name() AKASHI Takahiro
2020-06-20 18:35   ` Sughosh Ganu
2020-06-21  7:38     ` Lukasz Majewski
2020-06-22  0:41       ` AKASHI Takahiro
2020-06-22  7:19         ` Lukasz Majewski
2020-06-22  0:58     ` AKASHI Takahiro
2020-06-17  2:55 ` [PATCH v2 04/17] common: update: add a generic interface for FIT image AKASHI Takahiro
2020-06-17  2:55 ` [PATCH v2 05/17] dfu: export dfu_list AKASHI Takahiro
2020-06-17  2:55 ` [PATCH v2 06/17] efi_loader: add option to initialise EFI subsystem early AKASHI Takahiro
2020-06-17  2:55 ` [PATCH v2 07/17] efi_loader: define UpdateCapsule api AKASHI Takahiro
2020-06-17  2:55 ` [PATCH v2 08/17] efi_loader: capsule: add capsule_on_disk support AKASHI Takahiro
2020-06-17  2:55 ` [PATCH v2 09/17] efi_loader: capsule: add memory range capsule definitions AKASHI Takahiro
2020-06-17  2:55 ` [PATCH v2 10/17] efi_loader: capsule: support firmware update AKASHI Takahiro
2020-06-17  2:55 ` [PATCH v2 11/17] efi_loader: add firmware management protocol for FIT image AKASHI Takahiro
2020-06-20 18:39   ` Sughosh Ganu
2020-06-22  1:03     ` AKASHI Takahiro [this message]
2020-06-20 18:49   ` Sughosh Ganu
2020-06-22  1:09     ` AKASHI Takahiro
2020-06-22  7:58       ` Sughosh Ganu
2020-06-22  8:06         ` AKASHI Takahiro
2020-06-22  8:38           ` Sughosh Ganu
2020-06-17  2:55 ` [PATCH v2 12/17] dfu: add dfu_write_by_alt() AKASHI Takahiro
2020-06-17  2:55 ` [PATCH v2 13/17] efi_loader: add firmware management protocol for raw image AKASHI Takahiro
2020-06-20 18:57   ` Sughosh Ganu
2020-06-22  1:21     ` AKASHI Takahiro
2020-06-22  7:53       ` Sughosh Ganu
2020-06-17  2:55 ` [PATCH v2 14/17] cmd: add "efidebug capsule" command AKASHI Takahiro
2020-06-17  2:55 ` [PATCH v2 15/17] tools: add mkeficapsule command for UEFI capsule update AKASHI Takahiro
2020-06-17  2:55 ` [PATCH v2 16/17] test/py: add a test for efi firmware update capsule of FIT image AKASHI Takahiro
2020-06-17  2:55 ` [PATCH v2 17/17] test/py: add a test for uefi firmware update capsule of raw image AKASHI Takahiro

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