doc: Add documentation to highlight capsule generation related updates

The EFI capsules can now be generated as part of U-Boot build, through
binman. Highlight these changes in the documentation.

Signed-off-by: Sughosh Ganu <sughosh.ganu@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@gmx.de>
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Sughosh Ganu
2023-08-22 23:10:01 +05:30
committed by Tom Rini
parent 56f243dcbe
commit 3107f78485

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@@ -318,6 +318,9 @@ Run the following command
--guid <image GUID> \
<capsule_file_name>
Capsule with firmware version
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The UEFI specification does not define the firmware versioning mechanism.
EDK II reference implementation inserts the FMP Payload Header right before
the payload. It coutains the fw_version and lowest supported version,
@@ -345,6 +348,43 @@ add --fw-version option in mkeficapsule tool.
If the --fw-version option is not set, FMP Payload Header is not inserted
and fw_version is set as 0.
Capsule Generation through binman
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Support has also been added to generate capsules during U-Boot build
through binman. This requires the platform's DTB to be populated with
the capsule entry nodes for binman. The capsules then can be generated
by specifying the capsule parameters as properties in the capsule
entry node.
Check the test/py/tests/test_efi_capsule/capsule_gen_binman.dts file
as reference for how a typical binman node for capsule generation
looks like. For generating capsules as part of the platform's build, a
capsule node would then have to be included into the platform's
devicetree.
A typical binman node for generating a capsule would look like::
capsule {
filename = "u-boot.capsule";
efi-capsule {
image-index = <0x1>;
image-guid = "09d7cf52-0720-4710-91d1-08469b7fe9c8";
u-boot {
};
};
};
In the above example, a capsule file named u-boot.capsule will be
generated with u-boot.bin as it's input payload. The capsule
generation parameters like image-index and image-guid are being
specified as properties. Similarly, other properties like the private
and public key certificate can be specified for generating signed
capsules. Refer :ref:`etype_efi_capsule` for documentation about the
efi-capsule binman entry type, which describes all the properties that
can be specified.
Performing the update
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