Re: [edk2-devel] Loading Prebuilt EFI without INF in UEFIPayloadPkg.dsc

["Ard Biesheuvel via groups.io" <ardb=kernel.org@groups.io>]

Hi Greg,

On Thu, 20 Feb 2025 at 19:08, greg.wilson via groups.io
<greg.wilson=gd-ms.uk@groups.io> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to automatically load an EFI file in EDK2, before the UEFI Shell is available.
>
> It is a prebuilt UNDI Network Driver from Intel,  E4297X8.EFI, from the complete Ethernet Drivers package zip file. ..\Release_29.3\APPS\EFI\EFIx64
>
> The Open Source ICE driver doesn't contain bindings for the E823-L NAC  we have, even though it is part of the E800 series of Network Controller.
>
> Is there a way to build an INF file, that doesn't have an entry point, to load the preexisting E4297X8.EFI file? I hope there is a way to "embed" it in the built payload, being loaded through Slimboot.
>

There is an example here

https://github.com/tianocore/edk2-non-osi/blob/master/Emulator/X86EmulatorDxe/X86EmulatorDxe.inf

The depex should be implied for UEFI_DRIVER types, so I'm not sure
whether that is needed. If you do need it, you can just borrow the one
from that repo.


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