UEFI update files missing on sandbox?

[Simon Glass]

Hi Sughosh,

On Sun, 10 Sept 2023 at 13:13, Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org> wrote:
>
> Hi Sughosh,
>
> On Sun, 10 Sept 2023 at 04:54, Sughosh Ganu <sughosh.ganu at linaro.org> wrote:
> >
> > hi Simon,
> >
> > On Sun, 10 Sept 2023 at 04:10, Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi Sughosh,
> > >
> > > I thought that all your patches were merged but now when I build
> > > sandbox I don't see the capsule-update files generated. Is there
> > > something missing?
> >
> > The building of the EFI capsules was moved to the corresponding test
> > setup. This was based on feedback from Tom Rini [1], where he had
> > suggested that instead of having the binman nodes for the capsules as
> > part of the sandbox dtb, it should rather be highlighted in the
> > document.
>
> Hmmm that was not how I was hoping it would work.
>
> Is there a way to make the build create the files?
>
> ...I just found efi_capsule_data()
>
> I really don't like this at all...it is running a part of the build
> system in the test. We have to do this in some cases, e.g. for tracing
> we must run with a special build of sandbox, but it should not be
> necessary for EFI capsules.
>
> I would really like the sandbox build to produce the capsules needed
> for tests, without any extra effort. As it is, there is no way to try
> this out.

How about we add a single capsule update to the sandbox build, so that
it produces an update file containing U-Boot? Is that easy to do?

Regards,
Simon