> -----Original Message----- > From: Borislav Petkov [mailto:bp@xxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2015 7:48 PM > > On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 12:49:09PM +0000, Kweh, Hock Leong wrote: > > So this sounds pretty overengineered for no reason, or maybe I'm missing > the reason. > > If I had to give an example from the microcode loader, what we do there > is put the microcode in /lib/firmware/... and do > > echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/microcode/reload > > which goes and calls reload_store() in > arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/core.c which grabs a mutex, disables CPU > hotplug, etc, etc... > > And this mechanism is as simple as it can get. Maybe capsules can be > loaded like that too? > > Error code can be propagated too, if needed, of course. > > -- > Regards/Gruss, > Boris. > > ECO tip #101: Trim your mails when you reply. > -- Hi Boris, 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. Regards, Wilson ��.n��������+%������w��{.n�����{����* jg��� �����ݢj����G���� ���j:+v���w�m������w�������h�����٥
