Re: [PATCH 0/8] mkeficapsule: Support multi-payload capsules

Hi Ilias, Casey,

On 7/27/2026 9:25 PM, Balaji Selvanathan wrote:
> This series adds support for bundling multiple firmware images into a
> single UEFI capsule, driven through mkeficapsule's config file.
>
> It builds on Sughosh Ganu's earlier work adding config-file-driven
> capsule generation to mkeficapsule[1]. That series produced one
> payload per capsule; this one extends the parser to group payloads
> that share the same output capsule file into a single multi-payload
> capsule, adds a new API to build that capsule, and extends signing so
> each payload in a multi-payload capsule can be signed independently.
>
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/u-boot/[email protected]/
>
> ---
> - This series is part of work to bring multi-payload single capsule
>    based capsule update to Qualcomm boards.
> - However, this series applies to all boards, not just Qualcomm
>
> To: [email protected]
> Cc: Tom Rini <[email protected]>
> Cc: Heinrich Schuchardt <[email protected]>
> Cc: Ilias Apalodimas <[email protected]>
> Cc: Kory Maincent <[email protected]>
> Cc: Sughosh Ganu <[email protected]>
> Cc: Wojciech Dubowik <[email protected]>
> Cc: Simon Glass <[email protected]>
> Cc: Peng Fan <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Balaji Selvanathan <[email protected]>
>
> ---
> Balaji Selvanathan (6):
>        tools: mkeficapsule: Add multi-payload capsule creation API
>        tools: mkeficapsule: Enable multi-payload grouping in config parser
>        tools: mkeficapsule: Support signing in multi-payload capsules
>        doc: Document capsule generation through a config file
>        sandbox: capsule: Add a config file for generating capsules
>        test: capsule: Add functional test for multi-payload capsule update
>
> Sughosh Ganu (2):
>        tools: mkeficapsule: Add support for parsing capsule params from config file
>        test: capsule: Generate capsules through config file
>
>   configs/sandbox_defconfig                          |   8 +
>   doc/develop/uefi/uefi.rst                          | 112 +++++
>   .../tests/test_efi_capsule/capsule_gen_binman.dts  |   2 +
>   test/py/tests/test_efi_capsule/conftest.py         |  11 +
>   .../tests/test_efi_capsule/sandbox_capsule_cfg.txt | 118 ++++++
>   .../test_efi_capsule/test_capsule_firmware_raw.py  |  36 ++
>   .../test_capsule_firmware_signed_raw.py            |  33 ++
>   tools/Kconfig                                      |  15 +
>   tools/Makefile                                     |  10 +-
>   tools/eficapsule.h                                 | 128 ++++++
>   tools/mkeficapsule.c                               | 305 ++++++++++++--
>   tools/mkeficapsule_parse.c                         | 464 +++++++++++++++++++++
>   12 files changed, 1206 insertions(+), 36 deletions(-)
> ---
> base-commit: 574b1adad70a19d95c65e0f37f9c36d94fb5418f
> change-id: 20260725-mkeficapsule-9c1dd6c05b48
>
> Best regards,

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Regards,

Balaji