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

["Ard Biesheuvel" <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>]

On Mon, 30 Mar 2020 at 19:57, Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> wrote:
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> (adding Jian and Hao)
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> Thanks for the acks, and apologies for failing to cc the MdeModulePkg
> maintainers.
>
> Jian, Hao, do you have any opinion on this series?
>

Jian, Hao, Liming, Michael,

It is not always clear to me how you at Intel divide up the maintainer
duties between yourselves.

Liming and Jiewen have acked this entire series, but they are not the
MdeModulePkg maintainers, so I assume either Jian or Hao should
approve it as well before i can proceed with it.

If this is the case, could Jian and Hao please acknowledge that they
read this email, and perhaps indicate a timeframe within which they
will be able to give their verdict on these changes?

Thanks,
Ard.





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> On Mon, 30 Mar 2020 at 15:42, Gao, Liming <liming.gao@intel.com> wrote:
> >
> > Ack-by: Liming Gao <liming.gao@intel.com>
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: devel@edk2.groups.io <devel@edk2.groups.io> On Behalf Of Yao, Jiewen
> > > Sent: Friday, March 27, 2020 1:01 PM
> > > To: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>; devel@edk2.groups.io
> > > Cc: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>; Leif Lindholm <leif@nuviainc.com>; Kinney, Michael D <michael.d.kinney@intel.com>; Ni, Ray
> > > <ray.ni@intel.com>; Bret Barkelew <Bret.Barkelew@microsoft.com>
> > > Subject: Re: [edk2-devel] [PATCH 0/4] remove generation of EFI properties table
> > >
> > > Acked-by: Jiewen Yao <Jiewen.yao@intel.com>
> > >
> > > I cannot remember if there is windows OS still using the properties table.
> > > Maybe Microsoft people can comment.
> > >
> > > If no, I agree we can remove the old code.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
> > > > 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: [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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> >