From: Matt Fleming <matt@console-pimps.org>
To: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>,
Sam Protsenko <semen.protsenko@linaro.org>,
"Kweh, Hock Leong" <hock.leong.kweh@intel.com>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"Ong, Boon Leong" <boon.leong.ong@intel.com>,
"linux-efi@vger.kernel.org" <linux-efi@vger.kernel.org>,
Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] efi: Capsule update with user helper interface
Date: Sat, 8 Nov 2014 13:05:56 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141108130556.GM3592@console-pimps.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALCETrV6M5D4iPjxPwNkMWTfVYDf3wSuZ9P23miUSR-jMGRyvg@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, 04 Nov, at 08:35:40AM, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
>
> Am I missing something here? The current proposal is missing the
> success/failure part, unless you count the loaded count (in a
> different sysfs directory) as a useful interface for that.
As Wilson pointed out, you only get the ability to make meaningful
success/failure declarations once you've performed the reboot.
I know of no firmware that will hot-patch itself when you call
UpdateCapsule(). A reboot is always required. Certainly that's the way
Windows will work from what I've read, which means that for x86 it's
pretty much set in stone.
Which means there's only so much info you can return to userspace once
you've handed the blob to the firmware. I don't see a huge problem with
printing things in kernel buffer, since that's how other
firmware-related things work today.
--
Matt Fleming, Intel Open Source Technology Center
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-11-08 13:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-11-03 3:07 [PATCH v2 0/3] Enable user helper interface for efi capsule update Kweh Hock Leong
2014-11-03 3:07 ` [PATCH v2 1/3] firmware loader: Introduce new API - request_firmware_abort() Kweh Hock Leong
2014-11-03 10:15 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2014-11-03 12:07 ` Matt Fleming
2014-11-08 19:06 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-11-13 2:51 ` Kweh, Hock Leong
2014-11-17 15:12 ` Matt Fleming
2014-11-18 6:31 ` Kweh, Hock Leong
2014-11-19 2:05 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-11-03 3:07 ` [PATCH v2 2/3] firmware loader: fix hung task warning dump Kweh Hock Leong
2014-11-08 19:07 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-11-03 3:07 ` [PATCH v2 3/3] efi: Capsule update with user helper interface Kweh Hock Leong
2014-11-04 4:32 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-11-04 5:20 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-11-04 6:04 ` Kweh, Hock Leong
2014-11-04 6:32 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-11-04 8:03 ` Kweh, Hock Leong
2014-11-04 14:18 ` Matt Fleming
2014-11-04 14:57 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-11-04 15:40 ` Greg KH
2014-11-04 16:35 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-11-06 12:53 ` Kweh, Hock Leong
2014-11-06 16:52 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-11-10 8:31 ` Kweh, Hock Leong
2014-11-10 19:31 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-11-08 13:05 ` Matt Fleming [this message]
2014-11-08 15:54 ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-02-27 5:06 ` Roy Franz
2015-02-27 11:35 ` Kweh, Hock Leong
2014-11-03 19:33 ` [PATCH v2 0/3] Enable user helper interface for efi capsule update Andy Lutomirski
2014-11-03 21:27 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-11-03 21:32 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-11-03 23:02 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-11-03 23:08 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-11-04 0:38 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-11-04 1:14 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-11-04 14:07 ` Matt Fleming
2014-11-05 9:52 ` Kweh, Hock Leong
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