Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2014 15:47:03 +0100
From: Matt Fleming <matt@console-pimps.org>
To: linux-efi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>,
        Leif Lindholm <leif.lindholm@linaro.org>,
        "Kweh, Hock Leong" <hock.leong.kweh@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] efi: Capsule update support
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On Tue, 07 Oct, at 03:41:26PM, Matt Fleming wrote:
> From: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
> 
> The EFI capsule mechanism allows data blobs to be passed to the EFI
> firmware. This patch just introduces the main infrastruture for
> interacting with the firmware.
> 
> Once a capsule has been passed to the firmware, the next reboot will
> always be performed using the ResetSystem() EFI runtime service, which
> may involve overriding the reboot type specified by reboot=. This
> ensures the reset value returned by QueryCapsuleCapabilities() is used
> to reset the system, which is required for the capsule to be processed.
> 
> Cc: Leif Lindholm <leif.lindholm@linaro.org>
> Cc: "Kweh, Hock Leong" <hock.leong.kweh@intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>

Bah, sorry. Ignore this one, it was supposed to be part of a series.
I'll resend.

-- 
Matt Fleming, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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