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This is a large commit that removes all the providers and turns them into plugins. I think having both providers _and_ plugins was super confusing. Plugins are loaded at runtime so you could in theory develop a new plugin without putting it in the fwupd source tree, although there are no installed headers or PC files as I'm not sure it's a good idea at this stage. This commit moves all the per-provider docs, tests, notes, debug dumps and test data to plugin-specific directories -- these also allows the plugin author to "own" more of the source tree so we don't enforce fu- prefixes and the style guide everywhere. This allows us to run the same action on all the plugins in the future, so we could have a prepare(FuPlugin, FuDevice) and cleanup(FuPlugin, FuDevice) run on *all* plugins, so doing an update using one plugin would allow us to work around hardware quirks in other plugins. If I've broken your out-of-tree provider it's trivial to port to the new API with sed and a fixed up build file. If you need help please let me know.
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UEFI Support
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Introduction
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The Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) is a specification that
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defines the software interface between an OS and platform firmware.
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With the UpdateCapsule boot service it can be used to update system firmware.
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Build Requirements
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For UEFI capsule support, you need to install fwupdate 0.5 or later.
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* source: https://github.com/rhinstaller/fwupdate
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* rpms: https://pjones.fedorapeople.org/fwupdate/
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* debs (Debian): https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/fwupdate
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* debs (Ubuntu): https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fwupdate
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If you don't want or need this functionality you can use the
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`--disable-uefi` option.
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UEFI Unlock Support
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On some Dell systems it is possible to turn on and off UEFI capsule
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support from within the BIOS. This functionality can also be adjusted
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from within the OS by fwupd. This requires using fwupdate 5 or later
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and compiling it with libsmbios support.
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When fwupd and fwupdate have been compiled with this support you will
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be able to enable UEFI support on the device by using the `unlock` command.
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