Re: [edk2-devel] PcdDebugPropertyMask in DSC: How to I set different values for PEI and DXE?

["Andrew Fish" <afish@apple.com>]

> On Feb 17, 2022, at 10:52 AM, Kinney, Michael D <michael.d.kinney@intel.com> wrote:
> 
> I agree that your approach is the only way right now.
> 
> Do you have a feature request???

Well it does seem like a reasonable thing to be able to do? What do other people think?

I was able to refactor my code and I did not actually end up needing to override every PEIM and the PEI Core.

Thanks,

Andrew Fish

> 
> Mike
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Andrew Fish <afish@apple.com>
>> Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2022 7:26 PM
>> To: Kinney, Michael D <michael.d.kinney@intel.com>
>> Cc: devel@edk2.groups.io
>> Subject: Re: [edk2-devel] PcdDebugPropertyMask in DSC: How to I set different values for PEI and DXE?
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> On Feb 16, 2022, at 2:10 PM, Kinney, Michael D <michael.d.kinney@intel.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi Andrew,
>>> 
>>> Current DSC syntax for platform scoped [PcdsXXX] sections only supports
>>> CPU Arch and SKUID.
>>> 
>>> So there is no mechanism today to specify different PCD values based on
>>> module type.
>>> 
>>> You can manage this in the DSC file, but it does require the module
>>> scoped <PcdXXX> section for each module INF that requires a different
>>> value that the platform scoped [PcdXXX] section.
>>> 
>> 
>> Mike,
>> 
>> That is what I ended up doing, but it required overriding every PEIM and PEI Core. Seemed kind of excessive.
>> 
>> I think people cheat and use IA32 vs X64 to mean PEI vs. DXE on X64 platforms.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> Andrew Fish
>> 
>>> Mike
>>> 
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: devel@edk2.groups.io <devel@edk2.groups.io> On Behalf Of Andrew Fish via groups.io
>>>> Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2022 1:02 PM
>>>> To: edk2-devel-groups-io <devel@edk2.groups.io>
>>>> Subject: [edk2-devel] PcdDebugPropertyMask in DSC: How to I set different values for PEI and DXE?
>>>> 
>>>> I’m trying to have a different platform policy for PcdDebugPropertyMask in PEI and DXE. I can’t figure out how to do without
>>>> overriding every PEIM that I build?
>>>> 
>>>> My PEI and DXE has the same arch so I can’t use the CPU Arch to tell them apart.
>>>> 
>>>> Is there something I’m missing?
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> 
>>>> Andrew Fish
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>> 
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