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Revision as of 13:59, 18 June 2018
Discover: fwupd integration
Currently, Discover does most of the general job required for a typical plasma user but it lacks firmware upgrade on devices. This project will integrate firmware upgrade through fwupd in discover. After addition of this feature, Discover will be able to upgrade the firmware of devices attached to the system (via USB/SOC) on Demand.
Mentors: David Edmundson Aleix Pol
Deliverables
- On demand firmware upgrades via fwupd from Discover.
- Notification Support on New firmware updates.
- Setting UI for new firmware upgrades as per discussion with Discover Team.
Work Report
Community Bonding Period
During the community bonding period, I started with understanding the code base of discover. I found the way to add this functionality of Integrating fwupd via a new Backend i.e FwupdBackend. I then discussed this with my mentor Aleix and I started Working on this new backend. During this period we also discussed ways of communication and finally landed on emails with occasional video calls via opentok.
Coding Period Phase - I (May 14th to June 10th)
During this period I started by adding a new backend i.e FwupdBackend from a skeleton backend i.e DummyBackend. After adding the skeleton, I had to link the libfwupd with discover via CMake. For Linking, I added a FindLIBFWUPD.cmake so that cmake could find the required libraries. After successfully linking these libraries I proceeded with making the constructor and destructor for making the fwupdclient object to talk to the fwupd daemon. After this, I proceeded with displaying the attached devices discovered via fwupd for checking that client object is able to talk to the fwupd daemon successfully.
Discover Displaying attached devices discovered via fwupd daemon
Development Branch
Important Links
Discussion Links
- fwupd discussion forum I recently posted on fwupd discussion forum regarding adding a virtual device to simulate fwupd!
GSoC Proposal Link
Blog Posts
Contact
IRC: SharmaJiKaBeta , SharmaJiKaBeta_M