Public bug reported: -- To start out my goal is to sync the EFI tools chain to bring it back to parity with Debian and drop the unnecessary Ubuntu patches. --
fwupdate version 8 has improved stability and debugging of EFI capsule flashes. It introduces support to turn on UEFI capsule update on systems that it is turned off in the BIOS as well. fwupd version 0.7.3 adds support for flashing new Dell devices not in the ESRT. Both of these require moving to efivar 27-1. Moving to efivar 27-1 will also involve moving efibootmgr to 13-1 which is mostly a bugfix release. The new features desirable by this sync will require libsmbios. This entire transition is currently blocked by this MIR: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libsmbios/+bug/1603072 ** Affects: efibootmgr (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Affects: efivar (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Affects: fwupd (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Affects: fwupdate (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Also affects: efivar (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Also affects: efibootmgr (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Also affects: fwupd (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1620698 Title: FFe: EFI tools transition (efivar) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/efibootmgr/+bug/1620698/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
