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

[AKASHI Takahiro]

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 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

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