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From: "Ard Biesheuvel" <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
To: Sami Mujawar <Sami.Mujawar@arm.com>
Cc: Pierre Gondois <Pierre.Gondois@arm.com>,
	Leif Lindholm <leif.lindholm@linaro.org>,
	 edk2-devel-groups-io <devel@edk2.groups.io>,
	"Feng, Bob C" <bob.c.feng@intel.com>,
	 "Gao, Liming" <liming.gao@intel.com>, nd <nd@arm.com>,
	 Matteo Carlini <Matteo.Carlini@arm.com>,
	Laura Moretta <Laura.Moretta@arm.com>
Subject: Re: [edk2-devel] [PATCH v1 1/1] BaseTools: Build ASL files before C files
Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2019 17:09:59 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAKv+Gu8ZyEJkceivrPc6AD3sKcoqkVcfK6sOu32faEGJ9y_94Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <DB6PR0802MB2375333EC30BDE02342413CF84520@DB6PR0802MB2375.eurprd08.prod.outlook.com>

On Thu, 19 Dec 2019 at 19:15, Sami Mujawar <Sami.Mujawar@arm.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Ard,
>
> This is required for loading the AML blob in memory so that we can parse and fixup tables.
>
> However, I understand your concern regarding dependency/relying on asl compilers for the .hex file.
> The .hex file can be easily generated by a post-processing python script (20-30 lines of code) that reads the AML file and dumps the blob in a C array.
> If preferred, we can post a patch that adds this support so that we don’t have to rely on intermediate outputs of asl compilers.
>
> Alternatively, we would be grateful if you can any suggest another option.
>

So this is for making changes at runtime, right? And are you only
using the char[] array in its entirety?

You could look at SynQuacer or Overdrive platforms: those also load
SSDT tables from FFS sections at runtime.

  reply	other threads:[~2019-12-23 16:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-10-30 13:50 [PATCH v1 1/1] BaseTools: Build ASL files before C files PierreGondois
2019-10-30 13:52 ` [edk2-devel] " PierreGondois
2019-10-31  0:41 ` Liming Gao
2019-10-31 11:12   ` PierreGondois
2019-11-04  7:49     ` Bob Feng
2019-11-04 10:32       ` PierreGondois
2019-11-12 13:33       ` PierreGondois
2019-11-13  1:15         ` Liming Gao
2019-11-13  1:40         ` Bob Feng
2019-11-15 16:27           ` PierreGondois
2019-12-04 17:32             ` PierreGondois
2019-12-11 11:23               ` PierreGondois
2019-12-12  9:14                 ` Bob Feng
2019-12-16  0:33                   ` PierreGondois
2019-12-17 11:41                     ` Bob Feng
2019-12-18 10:43                       ` PierreGondois
2019-12-18 17:50 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2019-12-19 11:18   ` PierreGondois
2019-12-19 16:58     ` Ard Biesheuvel
2019-12-19 18:15       ` Sami Mujawar
2019-12-23 16:09         ` Ard Biesheuvel [this message]
2019-12-24 16:47           ` PierreGondois

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