tree 05f8f72fd15dd3c98060ceda1cfb2be5f91c60b0
parent 87615a34d561ef59bd0cffc73256a21220dfdffd
author Kweh, Hock Leong <hock.leong.kweh@intel.com> 1461614821 +0100
committer Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> 1461836045 +0200

efi: Add misc char driver interface to update EFI firmware

This patch introduces a kernel module to expose a capsule loader
interface (misc char device file note) for users to upload capsule
binaries.

Example:

  cat firmware.bin > /dev/efi_capsule_loader

Any upload error will be returned while doing "cat" through file
operation write() function call.

Signed-off-by: Kweh, Hock Leong <hock.leong.kweh@intel.com>
[ Update comments and Kconfig text ]
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk>
Reviewed-by: Bryan O'Donoghue <pure.logic@nexus-software.ie>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Sam Protsenko <semen.protsenko@linaro.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: joeyli <jlee@suse.com>
Cc: linux-efi@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1461614832-17633-30-git-send-email-matt@codeblueprint.co.uk
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>