[PATCH 0/4] Generate capsules from config files

[Bence Balogh]

Hello Sughosh,

We are planning to use these changes in the Corstone-1000 platform.
Do you have a timeline when these are going to get merged?

Thanks,
Bence

On Tue, Nov 21, 2023 at 12:30:24PM +0530, Sughosh Ganu 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.
> 
> 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  | 162 ++++++++
>  tools/Kconfig                                 |  15 +
>  tools/Makefile                                |   1 +
>  tools/eficapsule.h                            | 114 ++++++
>  tools/mkeficapsule.c                          |  87 +++--
>  tools/mkeficapsule_parse.c                    | 352 ++++++++++++++++++
>  10 files changed, 781 insertions(+), 31 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 test/py/tests/test_efi_capsule/sandbox_capsule_cfg.txt
>  create mode 100644 tools/mkeficapsule_parse.c
> 
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