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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
Introduction
The Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) is a specification that defines the software interface between an OS and platform firmware. With the UpdateCapsule boot service it can be used to update system firmware.
Build Requirements
For UEFI capsule support, you need to install fwupdate 0.5 or later.
- source: https://github.com/rhinstaller/fwupdate
- rpms: https://pjones.fedorapeople.org/fwupdate/
- debs (Debian): https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/fwupdate
- debs (Ubuntu): https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fwupdate
If you don't want or need this functionality you can use the
--disable-uefi option.
UEFI Unlock Support
On some Dell systems it is possible to turn on and off UEFI capsule support from within the BIOS. This functionality can also be adjusted from within the OS by fwupd. This requires using fwupdate 5 or later and compiling it with libsmbios support.
When fwupd and fwupdate have been compiled with this support you will
be able to enable UEFI support on the device by using the unlock command.