On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 2:23 PM, Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > + pjones. > > So reportedly, there is already a capsule-loading thing which doesn't > need the kernel at all: > > https://github.com/rhinstaller/fwupdate > > So why are we even wasting energy with this discussion here? > > -- > Regards/Gruss, > Boris. The network boot case can be taken care of as Peter described (ie taking network device paths, instead of just file paths), so this should work for those cases as well. There would be some extra setup, as for this to work the EFI firmware update program would need to be run at boot (via the BootNext variable), but I don't think this is unreasonable. It looks like GnuEFI now supports Aarch64, so building the firmware update utility shouldn't be a problem. Peter - have you you tried building this on Aarch64 yet? If not I'll give it a try. I think there is some value in using runtime update capsule calls, as that will help make sure the feature works in the firmware. I think with arm64 servers in an early stage of development, we can influence the firmware support of various features by using them. I don't know that this is a sufficient reason, but if runtime capsules are never used then there is a good chance that there will be many broken implementations. Roy -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-efi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
