From: "Kweh, Hock Leong" <hock.leong.k...@intel.com> Dear maintainers & communities,
This patchset is created on top of "efi: Capsule update support" patch: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.efi/4837 It expose a sysfs loader interface for user to upload the capsule binary and calling efi_capsule_update() API to pass the binary to EFI firmware. Thanks. --- changelog v4: * rebase the firmware_class to gregkh/driver-core.git#driver-core-next branch and drop the v3 2nd patch as Zahari already fix that in that branch changelog v3: * changes base on the design discussion in the mailing list: https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/2/24/307 * 1st patch introduce a new API request_firmware_direct_full_path() in firmware_class for developer to pass in full path to the firmware file * 2nd patch fix a bug for commit "firmware_loader: handle timeout via wait_for_completion_interruptible_timeout()" * 3rd patch introduce the capsule loader interface kernel module Kweh, Hock Leong (2): firmware_loader: introduce new API - request_firmware_direct_full_path() efi: an sysfs interface for user to update efi firmware drivers/base/firmware_class.c | 46 +++++++- drivers/firmware/efi/Kconfig | 12 ++ drivers/firmware/efi/Makefile | 1 drivers/firmware/efi/efi-capsule-loader.c | 169 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ include/linux/firmware.h | 9 ++ 5 files changed, 232 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) create mode 100644 drivers/firmware/efi/efi-capsule-loader.c -- 1.7.9.5 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
