This also allows us to write mixed-endian structures and adds tests. As part of
this commit we've also changed the API of something that's not yet been in any
tarball release, so no pitchforks please.
Similar to NVME, ATA drives distributed by Dell have special values
that should be used to designate fwupd GUIDs and only run correct
firmware.
When detecting Dell GUIDs remove the standard fwupd GUIDs. "Generic"
firmware targeted to those GUIDs will fail to install.
This speeds up matching for GUIDs by about 90%, taking the query from 3.17ms to
about 0.33ms on my Thinkpad. This is more important for slow ARM hardware,
where strcmp() is more expensive than on x64.
The current libxmlb dependency requires this and when run in subproject
mode will cause failures otherwise.
Also bump the snap to use meson 0.47.2 to fix snap build due to this
failure.
The libxmlb library is much faster to query, and does not require the daemon
to parse the XML metadata at startup. It's a zero-copy mmap design that is more
modern and less clunky.
RSS has reduced from 3Mb (peak 3.61Mb) to 1Mb (peak 1.07Mb) and the startup
time has gone from 280ms to 250ms.
Redfish is an open industry standard specification and schema that helps enable
simple and secure management of modern scalable platform hardware.
This has only ever been tested using an emulator and not on real hardware.
Commit 83d46b0579 bumped the minimum meson version to 0.46.0
This makes building on current Ubuntu LTS release more difficult
as it contains 0.45.0.
Instead conditionalize the build to run that code when on newer
meson.
This commit can be reverted when it's appropriate to bump meson
build dependency.
In Fedora the only user of libfwupdate is fwupd and the fwupdate command line
tool. It makes sense to absorb the libfwupdate library interface into the
uefi plugin in fwupd. Benefits I can see include:
* fwupd and fwupdate are very similar names; a lot of OEMs are confused
* fwupd already depends on efivar for other things
* We are maintaining an artificial library interface
* The CI and translation hooks are already in place for fwupd
* We don't need to check for features or versions in fwupd, we can just develop
the feature (e.g. BGRT) all in one place.
Check across a list of common EFI system partition locations for a mounted
location before starting fwupd.
This also will cause the plugin to not initialize if the EFI system partition
is not mounted.
Requiring colord to be built before fwupd makes it hard to build packages.
The HID-based flashing protocol is stable and documented, so there's no need
to use an external library for this now.
