[PATCH v4 01/11] Revert "Revert "mkeficapsule: Remove dtb related options""

Simon Glass sjg at chromium.org
Mon Oct 11 16:54:10 CEST 2021


Hi Takahiro, Ilias,

On Sun, 10 Oct 2021 at 18:29, AKASHI Takahiro
<takahiro.akashi at linaro.org> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Oct 08, 2021 at 10:11:59PM +0300, Ilias Apalodimas wrote:
> > Hi Simon,
> >
> > On Fri, Oct 08, 2021 at 09:38:11AM -0600, Simon Glass wrote:
> > > Hi Takahiro,
> > >
> > > On Thu, 7 Oct 2021 at 00:24, AKASHI Takahiro <takahiro.akashi at linaro.org> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > This reverts commit d428e81266a59974ade74c1ba019af39f23304ab.
> > > > We have agreed with removing dtb-related stuff from mkeficapsule
> > > > command even if the commit 47a25e81d35c ("Revert "efi_capsule: Move
> > > > signature from DTB to .rodata"") was applied.
> > >
> > > Can you please explain why this is being removed? How is the public
> > > key to be communicated?
> >
> > Via the script that Akashi-san is adding in this patch series.
>
> Yeah, please see my patch#4 for fdtsig.sh.

OK I see. I don't think I was copied on that. I replied on the patch.

Is there a tree somewhere with all the patches and docs so I can take a look?

Regards,
Simon



> The reason why I think we should remove the feature from mkeficapsule
> command is partly because we can do the same task by using *existing*
> fdt tools and partly because having two totally-independent functionality
> (one for a capsule binary and one for fdt) in a single tool seems confusing.
>
> > >
> > > Please can you also copy me on future related patches? (thank for you
> > > for the private email alerting me)
> > >
> > > What does "We have agreed" mean?
> >
> > This has nothing to do with the public key.  This is only changing the tool
> > we used to include the key in the DTB.  It is the same patch I mentioned you
> > should never have reverted in the first place on your pull request,  but since
> > that happened very late in the release cycle we said we would re-apply it after
> > the release.
>
> Indeed.
>
> -Takahiro Akashi
>
>
> > >
> > > >
> > > > Signed-off-by: AKASHI Takahiro <takahiro.akashi at linaro.org>
> > > > ---
> > > >  tools/mkeficapsule.c | 229 ++-----------------------------------------
> > > >  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 222 deletions(-)
> > > >
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Simon
> >
> > It was my patch to begin with so I am not really sure my reviewed tag has
> > any value, but FWIW
> >
> > Reviewed-by: Ilias Apalodimas <ilias.apalodimas at linaro.org>


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