Re: Boot failure for ArmVExpress-FVP-AArch64, CpuArch protocol does not appear to be registered

[Steve Capper <steve.capper@linaro.org>]

On 11 April 2018 at 13:25, Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com> wrote:
> Hi Steve,

Hi Laszlo,

[...]

> Summary:
> (1) introduce a custom GUID for "NorFlashDxe has formatted the variable
>     store headers for the variable driver to read";
> (2) install the GUID in NorFlashDxe once it's done verifying and/or
>     formatting the headers;
> (3) introduce a custom library instance with an empty constructor
>     function, and a DEPEX on the GUID;
> (4) hook the library instance into
>     "MdeModulePkg/Universal/Variable/RuntimeDxe/VariableRuntimeDxe.inf"
>     in all the platform DSC files where the platform build does not
>     pre-format a varstore template in the FDF file;
> (5) replace the BEFORE depex with gEfiCpuArchProtocolGuid.
>

A *very* big thank you for taking the time to explain this in detail,
after a couple of reads (I mainly just build EDK2) I was able to get
something booting following the above approach :-).

Cheers,
--
Steve