Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753274AbbBYMu1 (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Feb 2015 07:50:27 -0500 Received: from mail.skyhub.de ([78.46.96.112]:33251 "EHLO mail.skyhub.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751866AbbBYMu0 (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Feb 2015 07:50:26 -0500 Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2015 13:49:23 +0100 From: Borislav Petkov To: "Kweh, Hock Leong" Cc: Andy Lutomirski , Sam Protsenko , Matt Fleming , Ming Lei , Greg Kroah-Hartman , "Ong, Boon Leong" , LKML , "linux-efi@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] efi: Capsule update with user helper interface Message-ID: <20150225124923.GE3226@pd.tnic> References: <20150225114747.GC3226@pd.tnic> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 781 Lines: 23 On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 12:38:20PM +0000, Kweh, Hock Leong wrote: > The reason we use this interface for efi capsule is that efi capsule > support multi binaries to be uploaded and each binary file name > can be different. So you can write the file path to a second file and reload then, once per file. Alternatively, you can combine all the files into a cpio archive like we do with the microcode loader too, and let the kernel parse the cpio archive. -- Regards/Gruss, Boris. ECO tip #101: Trim your mails when you reply. -- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/