Re: Peripheral FW capsule delivery?

[Brad Bozarth <brad@sensel.com>]

I would really appreciate a small pointer on this - yes/no on if is a
standard peripheral fw delivery buit-in, and maybe a pointer to a doc or
source code directory to take a look at?

Thank you,
Brad

On Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 4:54 PM Brad Bozarth <brad@sensel.com> wrote:

> Hi!
>
> I am implementing firmware for a touchpad that will be going into a
> laptop, connected via i2c. We would like to take advantage of the UEFI
> firmware capsule delivery method for firmware updates if possible. I am
> struggling to find out how to do this. In particular, I'd like to know
> whether there is a "standard" delivery mechanism we can take advantage of
> and communicate with from the firmware side over i2c, or if we need to
> write UEFI driver code of some sort to pass the update down. We'd love to
> leverage a standard pipe that dumps an update over i2c if possible and
> implement what we need to on the firmware side. We are supplying our
> touchpad to the laptop OEM and they are distant and have their own software
> teams, so if we need to write UEFI code, it complicates matters!
>
> This is the page that I'd love to read, if it were filled out :)
> https://github.com/mdkinney/edk2/wiki/Capsule-Based-Device-Firmware-Update
>
> Thank you!
> Brad
>