This was a mistake originally for two reasons:
* The only device to use ELF as a deliverable is the altos devices
* ELF has nothing to do with the DFU specification
This moves the code to where it belongs.
It's not super useful. If this has no bad effects for a couple of releases we
can either remove it completely or move the functionality to the test plugin.
Thunderbolt has a new kernel interface starting from version 4.13,
which simplifies updating the host controller and devices: the
kernel now exposes a sysfs interface for the non-volatile memory
as a device node. This can be used to write the new firmware blob.
Updates are then triggered also via a simple write to a sysfs
file (nvm_authenticate), which in turn is also used for error
reporting.
The plugin should be functionally, but a few items are missing:
- image verification
- safe mode handling
Automake and autoconf are impossible to fully understand and Meson now provides
everything we need for a much smaller, faster, and more understandable build.
See http://mesonbuild.com/ for more information.