Hi Mike,
thank you for that information.
From my point of view there should always be public access to a trusted shell binary.
The UEFI Shell as a successor of MSDOS, that is booted instantly, has full HW access
shall be usable for production, quality assurance, provisioning in the PC industry or just
to support the BIOS development process itself with tools, before Windows is running on
a particular platform, and RWEverything is usable.
There are at least 1000 BIOS developers in middle and far east from various companies,
that have never seen an ITP, closed chassis adapter, Arium or Lauterbach debug tool.
So there need alternate tools, running on UEFI Shell…
Thanks,
Kilian
Killian,
The immediate replacement is to use the link to the edk2-stable tag from March that includes the UEFI Shell binary.
https://github.com/tianocore/edk2/tree/edk2-stable201903/ShellBinPkg/UefiShell/X64
There have been discussions that future edk2-stable tags to provide pre-built binaries like the UEFI Shell in the GitHub
release page for the edk2-stable tag.
Mike
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Subject: Re: [edk2-devel] [patch] ShellBinPkg: Remove ShellBinPkg
Hi all,
does that mean, that SHELL.EFI from a trusted source is currently unavailable
for the industry?
There are a couple of web sites that refer to “https://github.com/tianocore/edk2/raw/master/ShellBinPkg/UefiShell/X64”
Where get I SHELL.EFI right now?
Best regards,
Kilian
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To: Bi, Dandan; Laszlo Ersek; Ard Biesheuvel
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Subject: Re: [edk2-devel] [patch] ShellBinPkg: Remove ShellBinPkg
Assuming Laszlo's comment is addressed.
Reviewed-by: Jaben Carsey <jaben.carsey@intel.com>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bi, Dandan
> Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2019 6:12 PM
> To: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>; Ard Biesheuvel
> <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
> Cc: edk2-devel-groups-io <devel@edk2.groups.io>; Carsey, Jaben
> <jaben.carsey@intel.com>; Ni, Ray <ray.ni@intel.com>; Leif Lindholm
> <leif.lindholm@linaro.org>; Gao, Liming <liming.gao@intel.com>
> Subject: RE: [patch] ShellBinPkg: Remove ShellBinPkg
> Importance: High
>
> Thank you all.
> I will update the patch according to Laszlo's comments before commit the
> patch.
>
>
> Thanks,
> Dandan
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Laszlo Ersek [mailto:lersek@redhat.com]
> > Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2019 6:53 PM
> > To: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>; Bi, Dandan
> > <dandan.bi@intel.com>
> > Cc: edk2-devel-groups-io <devel@edk2.groups.io>; Carsey, Jaben
> > <jaben.carsey@intel.com>; Ni, Ray <ray.ni@intel.com>; Leif Lindholm
> > <leif.lindholm@linaro.org>; Gao, Liming <liming.gao@intel.com>
> > Subject: Re: [patch] ShellBinPkg: Remove ShellBinPkg
> >
> > On 04/17/19 09:16, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> > > On Tue, 16 Apr 2019 at 23:40, Dandan Bi <dandan.bi@intel.com> wrote:
> > >>
> > >> REF: https://bugzilla.tianocore.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1675
> > >>
> > >> Remove ShellBinPkg from edk2.
> > >> If developers work on current edk2 master and still want to use
> > >> Shell binary after this removal, they can get it from source code
> > >> in the Assets part of edk2-stable201903 tag release page.
> > >> And from next release (edk2-stable201905 tag), we will publish all
> > >> Shell binaries to the according Assets part directly.
> > >> edk2 release link: https://github.com/tianocore/edk2/releases
> > >>
> > >> Cc: Jaben Carsey <jaben.carsey@intel.com>
> > >> Cc: Ray Ni <ray.ni@intel.com>
> > >> Cc: Leif Lindholm <leif.lindholm@linaro.org>
> > >> Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
> > >> Cc: Liming Gao <liming.gao@intel.com>
> > >> Cc: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>
> > >> Signed-off-by: Dandan Bi <dandan.bi@intel.com>
> > >
> > > Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
> > >
> > > BTW you can use the --no-binary option to git to omit the binary
> > > diffs in the patch. Especially when deleting binaries, that saves a
> > > lot of hassle dealing with a multimegabyte patch email.
> >
> > +1
> >
> > For the patch, I have a request towards Dandan: regarding the line
> >
> > +Maintainers for stable Shell binaries generation when need to publish
> > +Shell
> > binaries with edk2 release:
> >
> > please:
> >
> > (1) wrap it with an 80-char margin,
> > (2) please insert a blank line just above it.
> >
> > With those:
> >
> > Acked-by: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>
> >
> > Thanks
> > Laszlo