Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Fri, 2 Oct 2015 19:37:04 +0200 | From | Borislav Petkov <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v6 0/2] Enable capsule loader interface for efi firmware updating |
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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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