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From: Kurt Kennett <Kurt.Kennett@microsoft.com>
To: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>
Cc: "edk2-devel@lists.01.org" <edk2-devel@ml01.01.org>
Subject: Re: Headless devices - BDS to use?
Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2016 17:21:09 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CY1PR03MB2345353F67C6A2E1FDAF2D039CBC0@CY1PR03MB2345.namprd03.prod.outlook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2edf5a12-f36d-9093-500f-655123e611ad@redhat.com>

Okay, but there is no reference or example for such, correct?

Right now people who don't have a display must fumble about trying to get Hii resources they don't need, understand, or use to get it to work?

And there is no boot manager menu that is not graphics based?

K2

-----Original Message-----
From: Laszlo Ersek [mailto:lersek@redhat.com] 
Sent: Monday, November 14, 2016 9:19 AM
To: Kurt Kennett <Kurt.Kennett@microsoft.com>
Cc: edk2-devel@lists.01.org <edk2-devel@ml01.01.org>
Subject: Re: [edk2] Headless devices - BDS to use?

On 11/14/16 17:51, Kurt Kennett wrote:
> What BDS are headless devices (no display, serial port only) supposed to use?
> 
> The MdeModulePkg one seems to require Hii resources in order to work at all.

It may require HII resources, but it works fine with just a serial port.

Thanks
Laszlo

> The ArmPlatformPkg BDS (that supported headless devices just fine) seems to be gone now.
> 
> K2
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  reply	other threads:[~2016-11-14 17:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-11-14 16:51 Headless devices - BDS to use? Kurt Kennett
2016-11-14 17:18 ` Laszlo Ersek
2016-11-14 17:21   ` Kurt Kennett [this message]
2016-11-14 17:33     ` Kinney, Michael D
2016-11-14 17:36       ` Kurt Kennett
2016-11-14 17:41         ` Kinney, Michael D
2016-11-14 17:54         ` Laszlo Ersek
2016-11-14 17:49     ` Laszlo Ersek

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