I’ve had a MacchiatoBin Double Shot board for some time. It runs various services for my local network and generally just works. I run a TianoCore EDK2 firmware on it using ACPI. It’s purely a network device so I don’t bother with any form of graphics and in the very few occasions I need to access it locally I do so via the built in USB serial TTL.
Recently Solid Run announced the MacciatoBin is now SystemReady ES certified. Excellent news! I’ve worked with Arm for some time on both the SytemReady ES (Embedded Server) and SystemReady IR (IoT Ready) standards and recently the certification program has been finalised so it’s nice to start to see the fruits from all the hard work myself, and may others, have done over a number of years appear.
The EDK2 firmware I was running was coming up to two years old and there’s been a number of enhancements to the various components of the firmwares that make up a complete update so I decided to download the latest firmware and update it. Eventually I am sure Solid Run will have these published to LVFS to make the process even easier but I know that to get to this stage has been a LOT of effort so it’s still a great step forward.
The first step of updating a EDK2 firmware is to download it and put it on the EFI partition:
peter@macbin:~ $ wget https://github.com/Semihalf/edk2-platforms/wiki/releases/flash-image-a8k-mcbin.bin_r20210630 peter@macbin:~ $ sudo mv flash-image-a8k-mcbin.bin_r20210630 /boot/efi peter@macbin:~ $ sudo reboot
On reboot you’re given a prompt to interrupt the boot process. From the menu select the option for the shell:
Shell> fs0: FS0:\> ls Directory of: FS0:\ 04/06/2021 19:084,096 EFI 07/25/2021 17:01 2,855,040 flash-image-a8k-mcbin.bin_r20210630 1 File(s) 2,855,040 bytes 1 Dir(s) FS0:\> fupdate flash-image-a8k-mcbin.bin_r20210630 Detected w25q32bv SPI NOR flash with page size 256 B, erase size 4 KB, total 4 MB Updating, 99% fupdate: Update 2855040 bytes at offset 0x0 succeeded! FS0:\> reset
It then reboots and we’re done, you see a very similar output to previously with some updated versions of various firmware and before long you’re back through grub and running Fedora again. Painless!
I’m really happy to see this is such a straightforward process, and I’m looking forward to seeing more features, enhancements and fixes to the firmware including capsule updates and the associated LVFS/fwupdmgr support, and improvements around firmware security (fwupdmgr –force security). Top marks to the Solid Run team!