[PATCH v7 10/11] doc: Add documentation to highlight capsule generation related updates

Simon Glass sjg at chromium.org
Sat Aug 5 17:04:02 CEST 2023


Hi Sughosh,

On Sat, 5 Aug 2023 at 05:35, Sughosh Ganu <sughosh.ganu at linaro.org> wrote:
>
> The EFI capsules can now be generated as part of u-boot build, through

Please check your patches for 'U-Boot' throughout.

> binman. Highlight these changes in the documentation.
>
> Signed-off-by: Sughosh Ganu <sughosh.ganu at linaro.org>
> ---
> Changes since V6: None
>
>  doc/develop/uefi/uefi.rst | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 18 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/doc/develop/uefi/uefi.rst b/doc/develop/uefi/uefi.rst
> index b2854b52a6..3150d6fb9c 100644
> --- a/doc/develop/uefi/uefi.rst
> +++ b/doc/develop/uefi/uefi.rst
> @@ -318,6 +318,9 @@ Run the following command
>        --guid <image GUID> \
>        <capsule_file_name>
>
> +Capsule with firmware version
> +*****************************
> +
>  The UEFI specification does not define the firmware versioning mechanism.
>  EDK II reference implementation inserts the FMP Payload Header right before
>  the payload. It coutains the fw_version and lowest supported version,
> @@ -345,6 +348,21 @@ add --fw-version option in mkeficapsule tool.
>  If the --fw-version option is not set, FMP Payload Header is not inserted
>  and fw_version is set as 0.
>
> +
> +Capsule Generation through binman
> +*********************************
> +
> +Support has also been added to generate capsules during u-boot build
> +through binman. This requires the platform's DTB to be populated with
> +the capsule entry nodes for binman. The capsules then can be generated
> +by specifying the capsule parameters either through a config file, or

not a config file at present

> +by specifying them as properties in the capsule entry node.
> +
> +Check the arch/sandbox/dts/u-boot.dtsi file for the sandbox platform
> +as reference for how to generate capsules through binman as part of
> +u-boot build.
> +
> +
>  Performing the update
>  *********************
>
> --
> 2.34.1
>

Regards,
Simon


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