[PATCH v6 00/17] efi_loader: add capsule update support

Tom Rini
2020-09-10T02:58:53Z

On Thu, Sep 10, 2020 at 11:52:37AM +0900, AKASHI Takahiro wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 09, 2020 at 12:56:28PM -0400, Tom Rini wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 09, 2020 at 04:48:30PM +0200, Heinrich Schuchardt wrote:
> > > On 07.09.20 07:34, AKASHI Takahiro wrote:
> > [snip]
> > > > required and partly because there is a problem with virt-make-fs.
> > >
> > > What problem with virt-make-fs exists? How will this be solved?
> >
> > This I suspect is related to the difficulty of getting tests to run in
> > all of our CI environments, where at least in one case they run and
> > pass, rather than skip. This will require that the series get run
> > through at least Travis and Azure before re-posting, at this point.
> > Thanks.
>
> I think that we discussed this issue several times before.
>
> https://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2020-July/419430.html
> https://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2020-July/420712.html
>
> I have not implemented a fallback handling in case of virt-make-fs failure
> as Heinrich doesn't like it (even dropped the code from my patches.)
>
> The only solution is Heinrich's patch:
> https://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2020-July/419976.html

The problem is that Heinrich's patch breaks things. A complete solution
is required. That patch might be part of the solution, along with
perhaps a rework of the logic to try and gracefully catch and re-try
when we have a problem with one of the possible tools.

--
Tom
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