Add documentation to explain the printing of the capsule headers through the mkeficapsule tool.
Signed-off-by: Sughosh Ganu <sughosh.g...@linaro.org> Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <s...@chromium.org> --- Changes since V1: None doc/develop/uefi/uefi.rst | 17 +++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/develop/uefi/uefi.rst b/doc/develop/uefi/uefi.rst index 68f9b332d1..f16580e169 100644 --- a/doc/develop/uefi/uefi.rst +++ b/doc/develop/uefi/uefi.rst @@ -385,6 +385,23 @@ capsules. Refer :ref:`etype_efi_capsule` for documentation about the efi-capsule binman entry type, which describes all the properties that can be specified. +Dumping capsule headers +*********************** + +The mkeficapsule tool also provides a command-line option to dump the +contents of the capsule header. This is a useful functionality when +trying to understand the structure of a capsule and is also used in +capsule verification. This feature is used in testing the capsule +contents in binman's test framework. + +To check the contents of the capsule headers, the mkeficapsule command +can be used. + +.. code-block:: console + + $ mkeficapsule --dump-capsule \ + <capsule_file_name> + Performing the update ********************* -- 2.34.1
