From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-pg0-x230.google.com (mail-pg0-x230.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:400e:c05::230]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by ml01.01.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id CE95780348 for ; Mon, 6 Mar 2017 16:33:29 -0800 (PST) Received: by mail-pg0-x230.google.com with SMTP id 77so27747447pgc.1 for ; Mon, 06 Mar 2017 16:33:29 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20161025; h=subject:to:references:from:message-id:date:user-agent:mime-version :in-reply-to:content-transfer-encoding; bh=4qXWdA0liGiwjDT5Kermaog+YZQk0kCyPa+UymJkcmU=; b=Nv3AbPP+zQeW7BWqQctDELJrE3kWO6v21YNwv2ugr8pjf2MrSK5+SyT0xTrjOmkQHd NXkRG8L92m7OIkEj7CDx8tpOnbrOkVSI+4OOf7aRYPzHQVw+VHDw1e15HLkUnkZt+Pl0 rRNW3qhju95zxwjKfxCAPyGISU/0M5YI2O533NbNOHgoBw9fWt1zmj90tc0W77PJi/tR 3HkbdjXSQNyppTdQQ7ZN3hQR4LcoPrrfWFC62MdUbAI1Wrypc+KQNkS54CHJP3ak3xAQ W+k4AjeGVncK5oViyapwdcrBZm4bKA9EmLsMP+PI5aOXLB2K2wEA3T/UrCzPY+JaAgX+ zwmw== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:subject:to:references:from:message-id:date :user-agent:mime-version:in-reply-to:content-transfer-encoding; bh=4qXWdA0liGiwjDT5Kermaog+YZQk0kCyPa+UymJkcmU=; b=baUVqbl2y7jVhk+QDRn8I9bHQg6k5nYB/3QS0Sjb2egrVL3LmmMqdWSbXzbXHVjZ0r D3xakbxsmnsFbRuyRYgAqwQVdGRjzkC2zIB8TZ1ltvEXcsrcr1KMoZhh+NLCV2xtuupO hqu5xaMEoI8NzMYhMYpur/Oww46DRwsKOrwIGMbdfRjxO190Rp8xWSfzFbiPiqEhNtBz VCV03q1UogmG4bHZg0stgK+MxA61ccYWrPETnWYAddx0rCbXuvOlQS4/mEqrrb55s53p tDqS30HLBWHvG83ial9HuGkCqVnN/5v4XrP268j1WUvQoi38bDMPqTzUvFEATkzIUOsa 00jw== X-Gm-Message-State: AMke39ku0CVJCNxiLjBTwwICzc70oufBSz8txnqgAV/JXXNzMxX1LMzlqcduv7L3tRvqQA== X-Received: by 10.99.193.21 with SMTP id w21mr15986187pgf.222.1488846809516; Mon, 06 Mar 2017 16:33:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.1.100] ([104.169.196.29]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id z68sm3271871pgz.11.2017.03.06.16.33.28 (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Mon, 06 Mar 2017 16:33:28 -0800 (PST) To: "Carsey, Jaben" , "edk2-devel@lists.01.org" References: <73bb0ed5-1490-4aaa-e38a-c388fae518a6@gmail.com> From: Blibbet Message-ID: <09500a70-d0d9-c2ec-b00a-cbc790c17c98@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2017 16:33:27 -0800 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.7.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Subject: Re: *BinPkg question X-BeenThere: edk2-devel@lists.01.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: EDK II Development List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2017 00:33:30 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I had missed the shell's ability to do this with commands, and thought they always had to be external *.efi files. Thanks for the clarification. That is great news. Lee On 03/06/2017 08:33 AM, Carsey, Jaben wrote: > Few thoughts - with the UEFI Shell Specification complaint shell binary from ShellBinPkg (not the minimal one of course), you have all the documented commands. There was no reason to provide individual binaries per command. That was dropped completely with the standardization with the spec. What "external command" is missing from the shell? Except for the DP command (which is not in the spec), I am unaware of "missing" commands. > > BCFG command can configure the BOOTXXXX and DRIVERXXXX variables. > > -Jaben