Re: Creating my own flashing app

["Richardson, Brian" <brian.richardson@intel.com>]

Guy:

I would follow Andrew's advice and investigate the use of Secure Capsule to implement SPI Flash Update. This is becoming the standard, and has a number of advantages (signed, OS independent, platform independent, compatible with fwupd.org & Windows Update workflow).

General information is on the TianoCore wiki:
https://github.com/tianocore/tianocore.github.io/wiki/Capsule-Based-Firmware-Update-and-Firmware-Recovery 

There is a capsule-based update app in EDK II:
https://github.com/tianocore/edk2/tree/master/MdeModulePkg/Application/CapsuleApp

Thanks ... br
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-----Original Message-----
From: edk2-devel <edk2-devel-bounces@lists.01.org> On Behalf Of Andrew Fish
Sent: Tuesday, December 4, 2018 1:35 AM
To: Guy Raviv <guyraviv8@gmail.com>
Cc: edk2-devel@lists.01.org
Subject: Re: [edk2] Creating my own flashing app

On a secure platform you likely need to update using a secure capsule. 
https://github.com/tianocore/tianocore.github.io/wiki/Capsule-Based-Firmware-Update-and-Firmware-Recovery
 
The capsule is the standard method, and then all the FLASH update code is part of the ROM.

Generally since an EFI platform has NVRAM services in the NOR FLASH there is an SPI driver to write to FLASH.

So if your platform does not secure FLASH you can use the services from the ROM.
> On Dec 3, 2018, at 8:45 PM, Guy Raviv <guyraviv8@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>   a whole SPI BIOS image.
> if i was not clear please tell me what i'm missing.
> 
> Thanks!
> Guy
> 
> 	Virus-free. www.avg.com
> 
>> On Tue, Dec 4, 2018 at 6:42 AM Andrew Fish <afish@apple.com> wrote:
>> Guy,
>> 
>> What are you trying to FLASH?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> Andrew Fish
>> 
>> > On Dec 3, 2018, at 7:28 PM, Guy Raviv <guyraviv8@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > 
>> > Hi,
>> > 
>> > I want to create my own flashing utility.
>> > Is there any EDKII App/Utilities that can help me?
>> > 
>> > Thanks,
>> > Guy
>> > 
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