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SubjectRe: [PATCH 0/2] Make capsules in a contiguous virtual space
On 21 December 2017 at 21:47, Richard Ruigrok <rruigrok@codeaurora.org> wrote:
> Please tested-by
> Tested on Centiq, applied on v4.15-rc4.
> This fixes the regression introduced in 4.13 where the capsule is no longer passed in contiguous virtual memory.
>
> On 12/19/2017 3:49 AM, Ge Song wrote:
>> Recently we found it failed to update firmware through capsule update
>> mechanism in linux-4.14 and later version.
>>
>> After some investigation, the reason is firmware expects capsules in a
>> contiguous virtual space and this assumption is not satisfied in recent
>> linux versions.
>>
>> Ge Song (2):
>> Revert "efi/capsule-loader: Use page addresses rather than struct page
>> pointers"
>> efi/capsule-loader: Request a contiguous virtual space for capsules
>>


Thanks for the patches (and for the tested-by). I will look into this,
but I'd like to try to fix this without breaking the quirk we did for
Quark.



>> drivers/firmware/efi/capsule-loader.c | 23 ++++++++++++++---------
>> drivers/firmware/efi/capsule.c | 7 +++----
>> include/linux/efi.h | 4 ++--
>> 3 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
>>
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