Re: DxeCore assert during initialization

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

On 23 February 2017 at 17:16, Marcin Wojtas <mw@semihalf.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I use Marvell Armada70x0 from mainline OpenPlatformPkg. After updating
> baseline to newest tianocore master branch it turned out that the
> platform fail to boot due to following assert:
>
> /home/mw/git/edk2/Build/Armada70x0/DEBUG_GCC48/AARCH64/ArmPlatformPkg/PrePi/PeiMPCore/DEBUG/ArmPlatformPrePiMPCore.dll
> 0x1800
> add-symbol-file
> /home/mw/git/edk2/Build/Armada70x0/DEBUG_GCC48/AARCH64/MdeModulePkg/Core/Dxe/DxeMain/DEBUG/DxeCore.dll
> 0x3F534800
> Loading DxeCore at 0x003F534000 EntryPoint=0x003F534800
>
> ASSERT_EFI_ERROR (Status = Invalid Parameter)
> ASSERT [DxeCore]
> /home/mw/git/edk2/MdeModulePkg/Library/DxeCorePerformanceLib/DxeCorePerformanceLib.c(523):
> !EFI_ERROR (Status)
>
> I bisected edk2 master branch and confirmed that the problem appeared
> with commit dc4c770763d0 ("BaseTools: add error check for Macro usage
> in the INF file").
>
> There are no errors, nor warnings during BaseTool and platform builds.
> Is it a known problem? Any idea about possible root cause?
>

Already fixed in
1d8cebf91040 BaseTools: Fix the regression issue caused by commit dc4c77

Regards,
Ard.