linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] efi: add support for non-standard capsule headers

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Message-ID: <d3885f56-8c36-9b94-b653-c14536022129@nexus-software.ie>
Date:   Thu, 27 Apr 2017 13:46:14 +0100
From:   Bryan O'Donoghue <pure.logic@...us-software.ie>
To:     Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org>
Cc:     Matt Fleming <matt@...eblueprint.co.uk>,
        Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@...mens.com>,
        "linux-efi@...r.kernel.org" <linux-efi@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@...il.com>,
        Hock Leong Kweh <hock.leong.kweh@...el.com>,
        Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        Sascha Weisenberger <sascha.weisenberger@...mens.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] efi: add support for non-standard capsule headers

On 25/04/17 16:08, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> On 25 April 2017 at 16:07, Bryan O'Donoghue
>> I'm OOO until Thursday however, I could test this out on a Galileo for
>> you with the CSH stripped out. As Jan has pointed out Galileo aka Quark
>> x1000 non-secure (not to be called insecure) will just skips past the
>> CSH anyway - so - we can give it a conformant capsule by stripping the
>> CSH junk off the top.
>>
>> How about you queue it up and I'll let you know if there's a problem
>> Thursday?
>>
>
> That would be highly appreciated, thanks.
>

Looks good.

I stripped the header
dd skip=1024 bs=1 if=firmware.cap of=firmware-no-csh.cap

Downloaded the now conformat capsule and update/reflash succeeded.

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