[PATCH v2 0/4] Generate capsules from config files

[Simon Glass]

Hi Sughosh,

On Fri, 19 Apr 2024 at 00:56, Sughosh Ganu <sughosh.ganu at linaro.org> wrote:
>
>
> Add support for generating capsules through a config file. Multiple
> capsules can be generated through a single invocation of the
> mkeficapsule tool, where the capsule parameters are fetched from the
> config file.
>
> The format of the config file pretty similar to the one used by the
> capsule generation tool in EDKII.
>
> The functionality is enabled on the sandbox variant and the EFI
> capsule update test is now configured to generate the capsules through
> a config file. The sandbox_flattree variant generates capsules through
> binman, thus covering both the paths.
>
> This is a rebased version of the earlier patch series that was sent to
> the mailing list [1]. That series was not getting merged as Simon had
> asked for generation of capsules as part of the sandbox platform
> build. Those patches have since been merged. Moreover, there has been
> adoption of the capsule generation logic by TI platforms as well, so
> that should address the concern which Tom had about it's usage.
>
> These patches are more of a step in the direction of adding support
> for generation of a multi-payload capsule. There has been a request
> for it's support for a platform [2].
>
>
> [1] - https://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2023-November/538223.html
> [2] - https://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2024-March/548126.html
>
>
> Sughosh Ganu (4):
>   tools: mkeficapsule: Add support for parsing capsule params from
>     config file
>   doc: Document capsule generation through a config file
>   sandbox: capsule: Add a config file for generating capsules
>   test: capsule: Generate capsules through config file
>
>  configs/sandbox_defconfig                     |   2 +
>  doc/develop/uefi/uefi.rst                     |  70 ++++
>  .../test_efi_capsule/capsule_gen_binman.dts   |   2 +
>  test/py/tests/test_efi_capsule/conftest.py    |   7 +
>  .../test_efi_capsule/sandbox_capsule_cfg.txt  |  73 ++++
>  tools/Kconfig                                 |  15 +
>  tools/Makefile                                |   1 +
>  tools/eficapsule.h                            | 114 ++++++
>  tools/mkeficapsule.c                          |  87 +++--
>  tools/mkeficapsule_parse.c                    | 352 ++++++++++++++++++
>  10 files changed, 692 insertions(+), 31 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 test/py/tests/test_efi_capsule/sandbox_capsule_cfg.txt
>  create mode 100644 tools/mkeficapsule_parse.c

Can you implement this in binman? I would like to avoid having a
separate config file from the image description.

Regards,
Simon