efi: EFI capsule support and peristent storage backend
The EFI capsule mechanism allows data blobs to be passed to the EFI
firmware. By setting the EFI_CAPSULE_POPULATE_SYSTEM_TABLE and the
EFI_CAPSULE_PERSIST_ACROSS_REBOOT flags, the firmware will place a
pointer to our data blob in the EFI System Table on the next boot.
We can get access to the array of EFI capsules when parsing the
configuration tables. Store a pointer to the table.
We can utilise this facility to save crash dumps, call traces, etc and
pick them after reboot.
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
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