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Subject: Re: [edk2-devel] [PATCH 1/2] LegacyBios: set NumberBbsEntries to the size of BbsTable
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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.