On Tue, Oct 10, 2017 at 12:58 PM, Leif Lindholm <leif.lindh...@linaro.org> wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 10, 2017 at 11:23:32AM +0100, Mark Rutland wrote: >> On Tue, Oct 10, 2017 at 11:15:39AM +0100, Sudeep Holla wrote: >> > (+Mark, Grant) >> > >> > On 09/10/17 18:16, Chris Metcalf wrote: >> > > The Mellanox BlueField SoC firmware supports a safe upgrade mode as >> > > part of the flow where users put new firmware on the secondary eMMC >> > > boot partition (the one not currently in use), tell the eMMC to make >> > > the secondary boot partition primary, and reset. >> >> When you say "firmware", are you referreind to actual firmware, or a >> platform-specific OS image? >> >> For the former, the preferred update mechanism would be UpdateCapsule(). >> >> For the latter, I'm not sure what the usual mechanism for doing this >> with EFI would be. >> >> Ard, Leif? > > This sounds to me very much like something we'd want to keep out of > the kernel. Assuming ACPI means UEFI, there should be less invasive > solutions to this problem.
Agreed. This looks like a very specific solution to a generic problem. g.