This allows us to make smarter policy decisions in the future on when
to show unavailable updates. It also means we can show translated
text in the frond-end clients.
Only problems the user can "fix" are enumerated. For example, opening
the laptop lid, or charging the device battery.
This allows us to show in the tools if a device is currently affected
by a specific CVE. For instance, we could inform the user that a device
requires a critical firmware update that is being actively exploited.
Note, this also means we can show the user a firmware update is now
required, even though the firmware may not be available on the LVFS.
Also show the issue in the `fwupdmgr security` output, e.g.
There are devices with issues:
Samsung — MZVLB2T0HALB-000L7:
• CVE-2022-12345
• CVE-2022-54321
Add a suffix to any GUIDs that are currently unconverted InstanceIDs.
This makes plugin development much easier as you can now see why GUID
quirks in the subclassed ->setup() are not matching.
Until gi-docgen is declared stable support either of them.
This effectively means that hand builds and CI builds will use
gi-docgen, but distro builds use gtk-doc-tools.
Devices may want to support more than one protocol, and for some devices
(e.g. Unifying peripherals stuck in bootloader mode) you might not even be able
to query for the correct protocol anyway.
The docs for `fwupd_device_get_children()` make it very clear that only the
parent should be assigned. Also add a warning to `fwupd_device_add_child()`
explaining it is for internal daemon use only.
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.
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.
Otherwise we could be left with a device that sets the expected verfmt in the
plugin _init(), but would not be inherited from the subclass. It would have:
Version: 0.2
VersionFormat: triplet
...which makes no sense.
The FuDevice derives from FwupdDevice, and yet both objects have a (potentially
different) parent and set of children. This is super confusing, and just not
required.
Removing the duplication also removes a sizable memory leak when hotplugging
composite devices as the parent was ref'd by the child and the child was ref'd
by the parent in different objects... Fun to debug...
This allows a device to identify with different streams, for instance a Lenovo
laptop could have a coreboot firmware or a AMI firmware. The GUIDs would be the
same, but switching firmware would only be done rarely and very carefully.
Another example would be switching the Broadcom BCM57xx nework adaptors from the
vendor nonfree firmware with a signed PXE image, to the free software reverse
engineered driver with no PXE support (and thus no signed DXE) at all.
It is expected firmware would have additional metadata something like this:
...
<branch>sdcc</branch>
<description>
<p>
This is an alternate firmware built by the community using only free
software tools.
</p>
</description>
<requires>
<id compare="ge" version="1.5.0">org.freedesktop.fwupd</id>
<client>switch-branch</client>
</requires>
...
Additionally, alternate branch firmware will not be returned for clients not
setting the FWUPD_FEATURE_FLAG_SWITCH_BRANCH before the GetReleases request.
The idea here is that we can show the user both a string and an optional
line-art image when the update has completed. The line art is often more well
understood for non-English speakers.
