Re: Headless devices - BDS to use?

["Kinney, Michael D" <michael.d.kinney@intel.com>]

K2,

Those are only required for platforms that support user configuration.

The QuarkPlatformPkg supports UEFI Secure Boot which requires a Setup Browser.

If a platform does not require any user configuration, then these can be
removed.

Best regards,

Mike


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kurt Kennett [mailto:Kurt.Kennett@microsoft.com]
> Sent: Monday, November 14, 2016 9:36 AM
> To: Kinney, Michael D <michael.d.kinney@intel.com>; Laszlo Ersek
> <lersek@redhat.com>
> Cc: edk2-devel@lists.01.org <edk2-devel@ml01.01.org>
> Subject: RE: [edk2] Headless devices - BDS to use?
> 
> But it is pulling in:
> 
> INF  MdeModulePkg/Universal/DisplayEngineDxe/DisplayEngineDxe.inf
> INF  MdeModulePkg/Universal/SetupBrowserDxe/SetupBrowserDxe.inf
> 
> Which are display based components.  Are these required in the image even though
> they are not used?
> 
> A browser and display engine take up a lot of space on a constrained storage
> system.
> 
> K2
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kinney, Michael D [mailto:michael.d.kinney@intel.com]
> Sent: Monday, November 14, 2016 9:34 AM
> To: Kurt Kennett <Kurt.Kennett@microsoft.com>; Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>;
> Kinney, Michael D <michael.d.kinney@intel.com>
> Cc: edk2-devel@lists.01.org <edk2-devel@ml01.01.org>
> Subject: RE: [edk2] Headless devices - BDS to use?
> 
> K2,
> 
> The QuarkPlatformPkg is an example of a serial only console platform that uses
> MdeModulePkg BDS.
> 
> Mike
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: edk2-devel [mailto:edk2-devel-bounces@lists.01.org] On Behalf Of
> > Kurt Kennett
> > Sent: Monday, November 14, 2016 9:21 AM
> > To: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>
> > Cc: edk2-devel@lists.01.org <edk2-devel@ml01.01.org>
> > Subject: Re: [edk2] Headless devices - BDS to use?
> >
> > 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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