linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v6 0/2] Enable capsule loader interface for efi firmware updating

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Message-ID: <20151002173704.GD16538@pd.tnic>
Date:	Fri, 2 Oct 2015 19:37:04 +0200
From:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To:	"Kweh, Hock Leong" <hock.leong.kweh@...el.com>
Cc:	Matt Fleming <matt@...sole-pimps.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Ong Boon Leong <boon.leong.ong@...el.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, linux-efi@...r.kernel.org,
	Sam Protsenko <semen.protsenko@...aro.org>,
	Peter Jones <pjones@...hat.com>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>,
	Roy Franz <roy.franz@...aro.org>,
	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senpartnership.com>,
	Linux FS Devel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Fleming Matt <matt.fleming@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [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@...el.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?

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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