Commit Graph

5 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Richard Hughes
ba2f0ae1d4 trivial: Document the GUID generation scheme
Fixes https://github.com/hughsie/fwupd/issues/837
2018-11-08 20:39:46 +00:00
Richard Hughes
1ccf35a9e4 dell: Register devices with the uefi plugin rather than using libfwup directly
The device registration allows us to create a 'virtual' device that can accept
capsule updates that is not found in the ESRT.
2018-06-28 15:51:11 +01:00
Mario Limonciello
694bb60f2c trivial: dell: update readme for MST and TBT being part of fwupd 2017-01-30 20:00:23 -06:00
Mario Limonciello
e781bb9b64 trivial: fix cosmetic fallout from provider -> plugin
some code (such as libfwupd) still internally refers to provider,
but this will need to be more carefully massaged
2016-12-13 12:25:09 -06:00
Richard Hughes
cff38bcb3a Convert the providers to plugins to simplify code and for future features
This is a large commit that removes all the providers and turns them into
plugins. I think having both providers _and_ plugins was super confusing.

Plugins are loaded at runtime so you could in theory develop a new plugin
without putting it in the fwupd source tree, although there are no installed
headers or PC files as I'm not sure it's a good idea at this stage.

This commit moves all the per-provider docs, tests, notes, debug dumps and test
data to plugin-specific directories -- these also allows the plugin author to
"own" more of the source tree so we don't enforce fu- prefixes and the style
guide everywhere.

This allows us to run the same action on all the plugins in the future, so we
could have a prepare(FuPlugin, FuDevice) and cleanup(FuPlugin, FuDevice) run
on *all* plugins, so doing an update using one plugin would allow us to work
around hardware quirks in other plugins.

If I've broken your out-of-tree provider it's trivial to port to the new API
with sed and a fixed up build file. If you need help please let me know.
2016-12-12 12:31:23 +00:00