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| author | Tom Rini <trini@konsulko.com> | 2023-01-27 22:48:14 +0300 |
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| committer | Tom Rini <trini@konsulko.com> | 2023-01-27 22:48:14 +0300 |
| commit | aa7c61f62923a1c9e9ec7f588ad37016d8c7323c (patch) | |
| tree | 1342a4a1602a41c8b9b58d21516ba1bb638cbe50 /doc/mkeficapsule.1 | |
| parent | 424d4f4509a97887647fae9a2a390f043cd60772 (diff) | |
| parent | 15436faa46a9958b019aea22d24bc52eb1da15ff (diff) | |
| download | u-boot-aa7c61f62923a1c9e9ec7f588ad37016d8c7323c.tar.xz | |
Merge tag 'efi-2023-04-rc1-3' of https://source.denx.de/u-boot/custodians/u-boot-efi
Pull request efi-2023-04-rc1-3
Documentation:
* Improve the sl-mx8mm documenation
* Clean up README, move some section to HTML
* Man-pages for the mtime and sleep command
* Description of reducible builds
* Document dynamic event handlers
UEFI:
* Support scrolling in eficonfig command
Other:
* fix mtest on 64 bit systems
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/mkeficapsule.1')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/mkeficapsule.1 | 21 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/doc/mkeficapsule.1 b/doc/mkeficapsule.1 index 6fb2dd0810..1ca245a10f 100644 --- a/doc/mkeficapsule.1 +++ b/doc/mkeficapsule.1 @@ -11,22 +11,23 @@ mkeficapsule \- Generate EFI capsule file for U-Boot .RI [ options ] " " [ image-blob ] " " capsule-file .SH "DESCRIPTION" +The .B mkeficapsule -command is used to create an EFI capsule file for use with the U-Boot -EFI capsule update. -A capsule file may contain various type of firmware blobs which -are to be applied to the system and must be placed in the specific -directory on the UEFI system partition. -An update will be automatically executed at next reboot. +command is used to create an EFI capsule file to be used by U-Boot for firmware +updates. +A capsule file may contain various types of firmware blobs which are to be +applied to the system. +If a capsule file is placed in the /EFI/CapusuleUpdate directory of the EFI +system partition, U-Boot will try to execute the update at the next reboot. Optionally, a capsule file can be signed with a given private key. In this case, the update will be authenticated by verifying the signature before applying. -Additionally, an empty capsule file can be generated for acceptance or -rejection of firmware images by a governing component like an Operating -System. The empty capsules do not require an image-blob input file. - +Additionally, an empty capsule file can be generated to indicate the acceptance +or rejection of firmware images by a governing component like an operating +system. +Empty capsules do not require an image-blob input file. .B mkeficapsule takes any type of image files when generating non empty capsules, including: |