More than one person has asked about 'why call fu_plugin_update() for a
reinstall or downgrade' and I didn't have a very good answer.
The plugin API is not officially stable, and we should fix things to be
less confusing. Use the same verbs as the FuDevice vfuncs instead.
Applying updates to my new P1G3:
* schedule the update in fwupd
* boot into the BootNext
* apply the capsule with RT->UpdateCapsule
* reboot with RT->ResetSystem
Except the firmware updater EFI binary then wasn't running. The ESRT
last_attempt_status comes back as Success on the reboot.
Disabling the UX capsule made the update apply correctly each and every
time. Until we can work out what models are affected, use a per-vendor
quirk to avoid delaying the release.
Shim has had a hard time with loading updates from arguments in the
most recent release and this isn't the first time that happened.
Give distros and users an escape hatch that will allow using GRUB
instead.
The CustomFlags feature is a bit of a hack where we just join the flags
and store in the device metadata section as a string. This makes it
inefficient to check if just one flag exists as we have to split the
string to a temporary array each time.
Rather than adding to the hack by splitting, appending (if not exists)
then joining again, store the flags in the plugin privdata directly.
This allows us to support negating custom properties (e.g. ~hint) and
also allows quirks to append custom values without duplicating them on
each GUID match, e.g.
[USB\VID_17EF&PID_307F]
Plugin = customflag1
[USB\VID_17EF&PID_307F&HUB_0002]
Flags = customflag2
...would result in customflag1,customflag2 which is the same as you'd
get from an enumerated device flag doing the same thing.
Data is accessed at offset 0x13, so the code must abort if size is
0x13 when you can access only offsets 0x00 through 0x12.
Signed-off-by: Sergii Dmytruk <sergii.dmytruk@3mdeb.com>
On Alterlake and newer hardware the Platform Health Assessment Record
data can be used by the IHV to debug why a specific capsule update
failed. Any custom firmware loaded by the OEM can be identified and
used to further debug the root cause.
There is a lot of code in fwupd that just assigns a shared object type to
a FuPlugin, and then for each device on that plugin assigns that same shared
object to each FuDevice.
Rather than proxy several kinds of information stores over two different levels
of abstraction create a 'context' which contains the shared *system* state
between the daemon, the plugins and the daemon.
This will allow us to hold other per-machine state in the future, for instance
the system battery level or AC state.
We already have two things managing the UPDATABLE_HIDDEN->UPDATABLE transition,
and we're about to add a third.
Add a 'stackable' inhibit-style API so we do not accidentally mark a device as
updatable when it should remain hidden.
Some systems remove the BootXXXX entry we add (so we can run fwupdx64.efi) and
thus the firmware update does not run. Most commonly this failure is seen with
Lenovo systems that call the helpful option 'Boot Order Lock'.
Hopefully when we depend on the new kernel bios interface sysfs API in we can
check in ->prepare(), not after reboot, but until that we can mark the update
failure as transient as the user can actually fix the problem themselves.
Fixes https://github.com/fwupd/fwupd/issues/2801
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>
This allows much better compression (-60%) than gziping them individually and
also allows us to build the capsule UX images as part of the build stage.
Also add more popular screen resolutions for laptops you can buy in 2021.
I was asked the other day how many machines would support a /dev/mem mmap'd
update mechanism, and I had to say that I didn't know. We use direct port IO in
the SuperIO plugin too, and it would be good to know how quickly we need to
port this to something else.
Once a device has been scheduled for update mark the others from the same plugin
as updatable-hidden rather than updatable so that fwupdmgr or gnome-software
does not try to offer updates for them.
This is preferable to quitting with an error in FuDevice->prepare as we don't
want to waste bandwidth downloading the next update and then show the user an
error they can't possibly understand.
Exclude the currently scheduled device to allow the user to change the scheduled
release and so the pending device does not disappear from UI tools.
The end year is legally and functionally redundant, and more importantly causes
cherry-pick conflicts when trying to maintain old branches. Use git for history.
That giant uint64_t isn't looking so big now, and we'll want to add even more
to it in the future. Split out some private flags that are never useful to the
client, although the #defines will have to remain until we break API again.
