Please pull u-boot-dm

Simon Glass sjg at chromium.org
Sat Sep 18 14:13:43 CEST 2021


Hi Ilias,

On Sat, 18 Sept 2021 at 05:59, Ilias Apalodimas
<ilias.apalodimas at linaro.org> wrote:
>
> +cc a few people that had some input on that discussion.
> Apologies from top posting, but I am sending this from a mobile.
>
> I think I've spent enough time trying to explain why I think we don't need to revert this and why moving the signature to the dtb once we fix it has minimal effect on the users.

We could get a patch in the release which makes it clear that the
current approach is temporary only and will change immediately after
the release. But really I don't see any sense in that since it just
confuses people. Better to drop it and get it done for next time.

>
> Note that the mkeficapsule is completely irrelevant and shouldnt be reversed anyway but since we have to make changes in documentation etc and we are close to a release, just keep it in there.
>
> If everyone is convinced that this needs to be reverted I am fine.  I'll just refix all of the platforms(since with this reverted only qemu supports authenticated capsules) and have a look on the dtb issues.

Yes and I am very happy to work with you on that.

Regards,
Simon

>
> Regards
> Ilias
>
> On Sat, 18 Sep 2021, 14:34 Simon Glass, <sjg at chromium.org> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Tom,
>>
>> This is a revert of the EFI patches as mentioned on the mailing list.
>> I believe this is the best way forward and avoids the current, flawed
>> approach from getting into an official release and making it difficult
>> to back out.
>>
>>
>> https://source.denx.de/u-boot/custodians/u-boot-dm/-/pipelines/9154
>>
>>
>>
>> The following changes since commit d0b8c9a231d6e5fba881960c9fcfcc444f1812f9:
>>
>>   Merge branch '2021-09-17-TI-platform-updates' (2021-09-17 18:51:57 -0400)
>>
>> are available in the Git repository at:
>>
>>   git at source.denx.de:u-boot/custodians/u-boot-dm.git tags/dm-pull-18sep21
>>
>> for you to fetch changes up to 47a25e81d35c8d801cae9089de90c9ffea083409:
>>
>>   Revert "efi_capsule: Move signature from DTB to .rodata" (2021-09-18
>> 03:47:50 -0600)
>>
>> ----------------------------------------------------------------
>> Revert the public-key-embedded-in-executable patches so this does not form
>> part of an official release before it is agreed.
>>
>> ----------------------------------------------------------------
>> Simon Glass (3):
>>       Revert "doc: Update CapsuleUpdate READMEs"
>>       Revert "mkeficapsule: Remove dtb related options"
>>       Revert "efi_capsule: Move signature from DTB to .rodata"
>>
>>  board/emulation/common/Makefile  |   1 +
>>  doc/develop/uefi/uefi.rst        | 124 ------------------------------
>>  include/asm-generic/sections.h   |   2 -
>>  lib/efi_loader/Kconfig           |   7 --
>>  lib/efi_loader/Makefile          |   8 --
>>  lib/efi_loader/efi_capsule.c     |  18 +----
>>  lib/efi_loader/efi_capsule_key.S |  17 -----
>>  tools/mkeficapsule.c             | 229
>> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
>>  8 files changed, 226 insertions(+), 180 deletions(-)
>>  delete mode 100644 lib/efi_loader/efi_capsule_key.S
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>> Simon


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