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.
At the moment plugins are doing this a few different ways; either looping
through the HwIds manually (e.g. flashrom) or setting a custom flag that is
checked in fu_plugin_setup (e.g. uefi-recovery).
Define a standard 'Plugin' HwId quirk to simplify plugins.
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.
If we say that the version format should be the same for the `version_lowest`
and the `version_bootloader` then it does not always make sense to set it at
the same time.
Moving the `version_format` to a standalone first-class property also means it
can be typically be set in the custom device `_init()` function, which means we
don't need to worry about *changing* ther version format as set by the USB and
UDev superclass helpers.
The factory-shipped MinnowBoardMAX board has firmware that does not include
the ESRT table. Create a 'fake' UEFI device with the lowest possible version
so that it can be updated to any version firmware.
All the HwId GUIDs are used for the fake UEFI device, and so should be used in
the firmware metadata for releases that should recover the system.
