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System firmware update support for UEFI machines
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fwupdate should provide a display capsule #66

Closed vathpela closed 6 years ago

vathpela commented 7 years ago

fwupdate should provide a rasterized text image capsule, so that the firmware's message can be localized the same as the OS.

We need a couple of things for this: 1) how do we pick which locale to rasterize into 2) what should it say? 3) what are the dimensions it needs to fit in, what resolution, etc. 4) how do we rasterize it :)

hughsie commented 7 years ago

Could fwupd pass a string? We already have translation support and the various translator teams set up. I'd even be okay with me passing a BMP data blob if you give me some specs.

vathpela commented 7 years ago

If you can get the string translated, I can build the rasterized images during the fwupdate build fairly easily, I think. So that will work fine.

vathpela commented 7 years ago

"Docs" are here:

superm1 commented 6 years ago

So once https://github.com/rhboot/fwupdate/pull/98 is reviewed/merged, I expect that at least for Dell platforms this UX capsule handling should be fixed.

Here's my proposal for an action plan: