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From: Rebecca Cran <rebecca@bluestop.org>
To: "Shah, Tapan" <tapandshah@hpe.com>,
	"edk2-devel@lists.01.org" <edk2-devel@lists.01.org>,
	"Gao, Liming" <liming.gao@intel.com>
Subject: Re: EFI_FIRMWARE_IMAGE_DESCRIPTOR v1/v2/v3: MdePkg and ShellPkg
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2017 16:16:36 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7bd3b2ba-4781-fd3f-6d45-b18ec66b4ee7@bluestop.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CS1PR84MB0024BE62FFA81148070816A7D45A0@CS1PR84MB0024.NAMPRD84.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM>

On 2/16/2017 3:59 PM, Shah, Tapan wrote:
> UEFI Spec does not have old FMP image descriptor structures V1 and V2 defined.
>
> MdePkg only follows the spec, so it contains the latest version # 3. But there are still drivers using old V1, V2 revisions and Shell 'dh' command needs to support decoding all revisions and needs to remain in ShellPkg.

Ah, okay - thanks. I was thinking that drivers might still like to 
support older systems that still run UEFI 2.3, 2.4 etc. and so would 
need to access the older structures.

-- 
Rebecca


      parent reply	other threads:[~2017-02-16 23:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-02-16 22:47 EFI_FIRMWARE_IMAGE_DESCRIPTOR v1/v2/v3: MdePkg and ShellPkg Rebecca Cran
2017-02-16 22:58 ` Yao, Jiewen
2017-02-16 22:59 ` Shah, Tapan
2017-02-16 23:12   ` Yao, Jiewen
2017-02-17 15:42     ` Shah, Tapan
2017-02-17 16:03       ` Carsey, Jaben
2017-02-17 16:46         ` Shah, Tapan
2017-02-16 23:16   ` Rebecca Cran [this message]

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