When this is done, include:
* Including the hash
* Including anything that is not ABI stable in plugins yet
Suggested-by: Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org>
Asking the user for the UID mapping isn't working very well, as it requires lots
of manual handholding. It also doesn't work very well when the device vendor
does not actually have a PCI ID or if the vendor has split into two entities.
Just use the OUI address as an additional VendorID and match any of the device
IDs against any of the metadata-supplied values.
Some vendors want to ship updates for ATA hardware, but there are currently no
lock-down restrictions in place for these kind of devices.
There is the OUI from the WWN block which is supposed to identify the vendor,
but this is not always set and so we have to be a little creative. We can match
90% of hardware using the vendor name prefix, and the last 10% can be detected
with a heuristic that was the result of comparing over 900 drive models.
I'm not including very old drive models, media converters, raid controllers,
or external 'portable' drives as I don't think it is useful. Also, if the drive
contains a Dell vendor block just hardcode this as Dell rather than trying to
be clever.
Also ask the user to contribute OUI values if this data is found with no quirk
data as this is the only real sane way to manage this data long term.
The list of OUIs can be found here: http://standards-oui.ieee.org/oui.txt
Some plugins have devices with more than one protocol. Logically the protocol
belongs to the device, not the plugin, and in the future we could use this to
further check firmware that's about to be deployed.
This is also not exported into libfwupd (yet?) as it's remains a debug-feature
only -- protocols are not actually required for devices to be added.
This will allow us to switch to the new firmware version during shutdown when
the filesystems have been remounted readonly.
Activating manually means we don't have to get the user to shutdown and then
do a fresh power-on, rather than the more usual restart.
