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Subject: Re: [PATCH] MdePkg/Include: Add CET instructions to Nasm.inc
To: "Kinney, Michael D" <michael.d.kinney@intel.com>,
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On 02/02/21 16:21, Kinney, Michael D wrote:
> Hi Sheng,
> 
> I recommend we update required NASM version.
> 
> From your investigation, the new min version would be 2.15.01.

I'd be happy with that -- the Linux distros I primarily care about seem
to support a nasm version that's not earlier than this.

On my personal laptop, I'd have to build nasm from source, but that's OK.

Given the above, I'd like to avoid more DB-encoded instructions in edk2.

Thanks,
Laszlo