[PATCH v2 11/17] efi_loader: add firmware management protocol for FIT image

Sughosh Ganu sughosh.ganu at linaro.org
Sat Jun 20 20:39:23 CEST 2020


On Wed, 17 Jun 2020 at 08:26, AKASHI Takahiro <takahiro.akashi at 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 at 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

-sughosh


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