On Tue, 07 Oct, at 03:41:26PM, Matt Fleming wrote:
> From: Matt Fleming <[email protected]>
> 
> The EFI capsule mechanism allows data blobs to be passed to the EFI
> firmware. This patch just introduces the main infrastruture for
> interacting with the firmware.
> 
> Once a capsule has been passed to the firmware, the next reboot will
> always be performed using the ResetSystem() EFI runtime service, which
> may involve overriding the reboot type specified by reboot=. This
> ensures the reset value returned by QueryCapsuleCapabilities() is used
> to reset the system, which is required for the capsule to be processed.
> 
> Cc: Leif Lindholm <[email protected]>
> Cc: "Kweh, Hock Leong" <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <[email protected]>

Bah, sorry. Ignore this one, it was supposed to be part of a series.
I'll resend.

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Matt Fleming, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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