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SubjectRe: [PATCH v6 0/2] Enable capsule loader interface for efi firmware updating
On Fri, Oct 02, 2015 at 05:05:52AM +0800, Kweh, Hock Leong wrote:
> From: "Kweh, Hock Leong" <hock.leong.kweh@intel.com>
>
> Dear maintainers & communities,
>
> This patchset is created on top of Matt's patchset:
> 1.)https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/10/7/390
> "[PATCH 1/2] efi: Move efi_status_to_err() to efi.h"
> 2.)https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/10/7/391
> "[PATCH 2/2] efi: Capsule update support"
>
> It expose a misc char interface for user to upload the capsule binary and
> calling efi_capsule_update() API to pass the binary to EFI firmware.
>
> The steps to update efi firmware are:
> 1.) cat firmware.cap > /dev/efi_capsule_loader
> 2.) reboot
>
> Any failed upload error message will be returned while doing "cat" through
> Write() function call.
>
> Tested the code with Intel Quark Galileo platform.

What does the error case look like? A standard glibc message about
write(2) failing?

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Regards/Gruss,
Boris.

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