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The Firmware Update Abstraction Layer (FAL) is a combination of the following to provide a firmware update solution that can be used to perform FW/BIOS updates across a heterogeneous mix of edge systems.

• Ubuntu

There are 3 Components to the Firmware Update Abstraction Layer (FAL). The main deliverable of this project is the Firmware Update Abstraction Layer Library (FALL). The other two components are reference code to demonstrate how the library may be used.

See the individual README.md files for more information on each component.

PFU Library Readme

PFU Command-line Readme

Running in a Docker container

Please also see the docs directory.

• install m4

sudo apt install m4

• install Docker

sudo apt-get -y install curl 
# install docker using the convenience script 
curl -fsSL https://get.docker.com -o get-docker.sh 
# preview script steps before running 
DRY_RUN=1 sh ./get-docker.sh 
sudo sh get-docker.sh

./build.sh

See the docker subdirectory for instructions on building a Docker image.

• Change directory: cd falc-program/installer
• Run script: ./install-fal.sh

• Change directory: cd falc-program/installer
• Run script: ./uninstall-fal.sh