Donating 5 minutes of your time to help the LVFS

For about every 250 bug reports I recieve I get an email offering to help. Most of the time the person offering help isn’t capable of diving right in the trickiest parts of the code and just wanted to make my life easier. Now I have a task that almost anyone can help with…

For the next version of the LVFS we deploy we’re going to be showing what was changed between each firmware version. Rather than just stating the firmware has changed from SHA1:DEAD to SHA1:BEEF and some high level update description provided by the vendor, we can show the interested user the UEFI modules that changed. I’m still working on the feature and without more data it’s kinda, well, dull. Before I can make the feature actually useful to anyone except a BIOS engineer, I need some help finding out information about the various modules.

In most cases it’s simply googling the name of the module and writing 1-2 lines of a summary about the module. In some cases the module isn’t documented at all, and that’s fine — I can go back to the vendors and ask them for more details about the few we can’t do ourselves. What I can’t do is ask them to explain all 150 modules in a specific firmware release, and I don’t scale to ~2000 Google queries. With the help of EDK2 I’ve already done 213 myself but now I’ve run out of puff.

So, if you have a spare 5 minutes I’d really appreciate some help. The shared spreadsheet is here , and any input is useful. Thanks!