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From: "Laszlo Ersek" <lersek@redhat.com>
To: "Ni, Ray" <ray.ni@intel.com>,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
	"devel@edk2.groups.io" <devel@edk2.groups.io>,
	"jljusten@gmail.com" <jljusten@gmail.com>,
	"afish@apple.com" <afish@apple.com>,
	Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [edk2-devel] [PATCH 1/2] LegacyBios: set NumberBbsEntries to the size of BbsTable
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2019 12:34:14 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5314dd78-f720-5b72-092b-0b958a55969c@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <734D49CCEBEEF84792F5B80ED585239D5C1EED22@SHSMSX104.ccr.corp.intel.com>

On 06/25/19 09:06, Ni, Ray wrote:
> Can you obtain the description from the NV storage?

No, nothing carries persistent (data-like) description for these
devices. IIUC we just want to reuse the description generator logic (=
code) from UefiBootManagerLib, with some customization.

Thanks
Laszlo

> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
>> Sent: Tuesday, June 25, 2019 2:06 PM
>> To: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>; devel@edk2.groups.io;
>> jljusten@gmail.com; afish@apple.com; Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
>> Cc: Ni, Ray <ray.ni@intel.com>
>> Subject: Re: [edk2-devel] [PATCH 1/2] LegacyBios: set NumberBbsEntries to
>> the size of BbsTable
>>
>>
>>
>> On 24 June 2019 23:22:03 BST, Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com> wrote:
>>> Wait, we already have EfiBootManagerRegisterBootDescriptionHandler().
>>> Could that help?
>>
>> No, that allows you to register a function to *provide* a description. We
>> need to *obtain* a description.
>>
>> See the patch series I posted on Friday; I think I have this working sanely now.


  reply	other threads:[~2019-06-25 10:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <1359122038.24865.19.camel@shinybook.infradead.org>
     [not found] ` <1359147866-15605-3-git-send-email-lersek@redhat.com>
2019-06-18  9:13   ` [PATCH 2/2] LegacyBbs: add boot entries for virtio-blk devices David Woodhouse
2019-06-19 12:44     ` [PATCH 1/2] LegacyBios: set NumberBbsEntries to the size of BbsTable David Woodhouse
2019-06-20 16:12       ` [edk2-devel] " Laszlo Ersek
2019-06-20 17:32         ` David Woodhouse
2019-06-20 20:35           ` Laszlo Ersek
2019-06-21 10:59             ` David Woodhouse
2019-06-24 22:08               ` Laszlo Ersek
2019-06-24 22:22                 ` Laszlo Ersek
     [not found]                   ` <F95F0A95-4638-4B08-BDAF-53A797A6B877@infradead.org>
2019-06-25  7:06                     ` Ni, Ray
2019-06-25 10:34                       ` Laszlo Ersek [this message]
2019-06-25  7:29                 ` David Woodhouse
2019-06-24 11:48             ` David Woodhouse
2019-06-24 21:49               ` Laszlo Ersek
2019-06-19 12:44     ` [PATCH 2/2] LegacyBbs: Add boot entries for VirtIO and NVME devices David Woodhouse

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