Public bug reported:
[Impact]
We should ship fwupdate in 15.04 (hardware enablement tool; a firmware updater
tool). It is used to apply firmware updates to BIOS or other components on
systems for which their BIOS supports the EFI Capsule specification.
[Test Case]
<requires a system with EFI Capsule support>
1) Run 'fwupdate -s' to check that EFI capsule is supported.
2) Run 'fwupdate -l' to list device UUIDs supporting EFI Capsule updates.
3) Acquire a firmware update binary from your hardware vendor.
4) sudo fwupdate -a `sudo fwupdate -l | sed -e 's/.*{\(.*\)}.*/\1/'`
firmware.bin
5) sudo efibootmgr -v # should list the LinuxFirmwareUpdate entry, along with
the same value in BootNext.
6) Reboot the system and watch the update being applied.
The fwupdate tool should succeed for every call. Following the last, one
should see a new "LinuxFirmwareUpdater" entry reported by efibootmgr,
and upon rebooting one should see the system applying the new firmware
update, which may be recognizable as vendor-specific code (some vendors
may show their own logo once the firmware update gets run).
[Regression Potential]
Limited to EFI installations. Failure to execute the firmware updater may
result in shim loading the MokManager (EFI certificate management tool)
instead, before allowing one to continue with normal boot. Otherwise, one may
notice other issues in booting the system, in the form of a freeze when the
firmware updater attempts to run. Rebooting should fix issues in all cases
since the system should only boot *once* to the updater (what BootNext is
supposed to do). Repeatedly booting in the firmware updater would constitute a
regression.
** Affects: fwupdate (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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[SRU] [HWE] Backport fwupdate to 15.04
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