efi: Add 'capsule' update support
The EFI capsule mechanism allows data blobs to be passed to the EFI firmware. A common use case is performing firmware updates. This patch just introduces the main infrastructure for interacting with the firmware, and a driver that allows users to upload capsules will come in a later patch. Once a capsule has been passed to the firmware, the next reboot must be performed using the ResetSystem() EFI runtime service, which may involve overriding the reboot type specified by reboot=. This ensures the reset value returned by QueryCapsuleCapabilities() is used to reset the system, which is required for the capsule to be processed. efi_capsule_pending() is provided for this purpose. At the moment we only allow a single capsule blob to be sent to the firmware despite the fact that UpdateCapsule() takes a 'CapsuleCount' parameter. This simplifies the API and shouldn't result in any downside since it is still possible to send multiple capsules by repeatedly calling UpdateCapsule(). Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk> Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Bryan O'Donoghue <pure.logic@nexus-software.ie> Cc: Kweh Hock Leong <hock.leong.kweh@intel.com> Cc: Mark Salter <msalter@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: joeyli <jlee@suse.com> Cc: linux-efi@vger.kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1461614832-17633-28-git-send-email-matt@codeblueprint.co.ukSigned-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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