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Richard Hughes cff38bcb3a Convert the providers to plugins to simplify code and for future features 
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.
2016-12-12 12:31:23 +00:00

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UDev Support

Introduction

This plugin reads the version numbers of PCI devices. It cannot deploy firmware onto devices but is used to list devices with known firmware updates that may require booting into another operating system to apply.

This plugin is also able to read and parse the firmware of some PCI devices which allows some host state verification to be done.