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From: Udit Kumar <udit.kumar@nxp.com>
To: "edk2-devel@lists.01.org" <edk2-devel@lists.01.org>
Subject: Accessing global variables from Shell
Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2017 07:18:44 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <DB3PR04MB0761C798CA38A3A82ABB8A7E91D60@DB3PR04MB0761.eurprd04.prod.outlook.com> (raw)

Dear Edk2, 

I am trying to create one global variables, and access that from shell. 
If I am using gEfiGlobalVariableGuid to create variable then I could access it perfectly ok ,  If I use other Guid (even vendor guid) then I couldn't access from shell. 

Original code 
STATIC CONST CHAR16           myVar[] = L"MacUniqueId";
Status = gRT->SetVariable ((CHAR16 *)myVar,
                    &gEfiCallerIdGuid,
                    EFI_VARIABLE_NON_VOLATILE |
                     EFI_VARIABLE_BOOTSERVICE_ACCESS |
                     EFI_VARIABLE_RUNTIME_ACCESS, Size,

On shell 
FS0:\> setvar MacUniqueId -guid C9DCF469-A7C4-11D5-87DA-00062945C3B9
setvar: Unable to get - C9DCF469-A7C4-11D5-87DA-00062945C3B9 - MacUniqueId
FS0:\> setvar MacUniqueId
setvar: Unable to get - 8BE4DF61-93CA-11D2-AA0D-00E098032B8C - Hello


When I changed the guid to gEfiGlobalVariableGuid
STATIC CONST CHAR16           myVar[] = L"MacUniqueId";
Status = gRT->SetVariable ((CHAR16 *)myVar,
                    &gEfiGlobalVariableGuid,
                    EFI_VARIABLE_NON_VOLATILE |
                     EFI_VARIABLE_BOOTSERVICE_ACCESS |
                     EFI_VARIABLE_RUNTIME_ACCESS, Size,
I could access it 
FS0:\> setvar MacUniqueId
8BE4DF61-93CA-11D2-AA0D-00E098032B8C - MacUniqueId - 0004 Bytes
42 FF 7A AF

Thanks for suggestion. 

Regards
Udit


             reply	other threads:[~2017-07-03  7:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-07-03  7:18 Udit Kumar [this message]
2017-07-03 18:13 ` Accessing global variables from Shell Laszlo Ersek
2017-07-04  4:33   ` Udit Kumar

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