Re: [edk2-devel] [PATCH 0/4] remove generation of EFI properties table

["Dandan Bi" <dandan.bi@intel.com>]

For the functionality, it is the same with before for platforms which set PcdPropertiesTableEnable to false by default.
Reviewed-by: Dandan Bi <dandan.bi@intel.com> for patch [PATCH 2/4] [PATCH 3/4] [PATCH 4/4].


If anyone still has the use case of enabling PcdPropertiesTableEnable, please comment.


Thanks,
Dandan
> -----Original Message-----
> From: devel@edk2.groups.io [mailto:devel@edk2.groups.io] On Behalf Of
> Ard Biesheuvel
> Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2020 6:25 PM
> To: devel@edk2.groups.io
> Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>; Laszlo Ersek
> <lersek@redhat.com>; Leif Lindholm <leif@nuviainc.com>; Kinney, Michael
> D <michael.d.kinney@intel.com>; Ni, Ray <ray.ni@intel.com>; Yao, Jiewen
> <jiewen.yao@intel.com>; Bret Barkelew <Bret.Barkelew@microsoft.com>
> Subject: [edk2-devel] [PATCH 0/4] remove generation of EFI properties table
> 
> The EFI properties table is broken by design, deprecated, and seems to be
> causing confusion as it is unclear to some how it differs from the memory
> attributes table (which supersedes it). So let's get rid of the code that
> generates it entirely, along with the GUID definitions, PCDs etc.
> 
> Due to how the two implementations are intertwined, patch #2 makes the
> minimal changes required to stop producing the table (and to allow patch
> #3 to remove the associated definitions from MdePkg). Patch #4 is optional
> and merges the code together.
> 
> Cc: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>
> Cc: Leif Lindholm <leif@nuviainc.com>
> Cc: Michael D Kinney <michael.d.kinney@intel.com>
> Cc: Ray Ni <ray.ni@intel.com>
> Cc: Jiewen Yao <jiewen.yao@intel.com>
> Cc: Bret Barkelew <Bret.Barkelew@microsoft.com>
> 
> Link: https://bugzilla.tianocore.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2633
> 
> Ard Biesheuvel (4):
>   OvmfPkg: remove handling of properties table
>   MdeModulePkg: disable properties table generation but retain the code
>   MdePkg: remove PropertiesTable GUID
>   MdeModulePkg/DxeCore: merge properties table routines into MAT
>     handling
> 
>  MdeModulePkg/Core/Dxe/DxeMain.h               |    9 -
>  MdeModulePkg/Core/Dxe/DxeMain.inf             |    3 -
>  MdeModulePkg/Core/Dxe/DxeMain/DxeMain.c       |    1 -
>  .../Core/Dxe/Misc/MemoryAttributesTable.c     | 1226 ++++++++++++++-
>  MdeModulePkg/Core/Dxe/Misc/MemoryProtection.c |    1 -
>  MdeModulePkg/Core/Dxe/Misc/PropertiesTable.c  | 1373 -----------------
>  MdeModulePkg/MdeModulePkg.dec                 |   24 -
>  MdeModulePkg/MdeModulePkg.uni                 |   21 -
>  MdePkg/Include/Guid/PropertiesTable.h         |   31 -
>  MdePkg/MdePkg.dec                             |    3 -
>  OvmfPkg/OvmfPkgIa32.dsc                       |    1 -
>  OvmfPkg/OvmfPkgIa32X64.dsc                    |    1 -
>  OvmfPkg/OvmfPkgX64.dsc                        |    1 -
>  OvmfPkg/OvmfXen.dsc                           |    1 -
>  OvmfPkg/PlatformPei/Platform.c                |    1 -
>  OvmfPkg/PlatformPei/PlatformPei.inf           |    1 -
>  16 files changed, 1222 insertions(+), 1476 deletions(-)  delete mode 100644
> MdeModulePkg/Core/Dxe/Misc/PropertiesTable.c
>  delete mode 100644 MdePkg/Include/Guid/PropertiesTable.h
> 
> --
> 2.17.1
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