[edk2-devel] [edk2-platforms][PATCH v1 02/16] Platform/BeagleBoard: Use ReportStatusCodeLib in MdeModulePkg

[Ard Biesheuvel]

(adding Andrew)

On Fri, 17 May 2019 at 18:05, Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel at linaro.org> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 17 May 2019 at 18:03, Leif Lindholm <leif.lindholm at linaro.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, May 17, 2019 at 05:24:36PM +0200, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> > > On Tue, 14 May 2019 at 04:08, Wu, Hao A <hao.a.wu at intel.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > REF:https://bugzilla.tianocore.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1800
> > > >
> > > > This commit will update the DSC file to consume the ReportStatusCodeLib
> > > > (DXE phase and Runtime instances) in MdeModulePkg, instead of using the
> > > > one in IntelFrameworkModulePkg.
> > > >
> > > > Please note that, the DXE and Runtime ReportStatusCodeLib instances are
> > > > almost identical between IntelFrameworkModulePkg and MdeModulePkg. Thus,
> > > > there is no functional impact for this commit.
> > > >
> > > > Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel at linaro.org>
> > > > Cc: Leif Lindholm <leif.lindholm at linaro.org>
> > > > Cc: Michael D Kinney <michael.d.kinney at intel.com>
> > > > Signed-off-by: Hao A Wu <hao.a.wu at intel.com>
> > >
> > > This platform does not have a status code router, so should we not
> > > simply switch to BaseReportStatusCodeLibNull.inf here?
> >
> > Err, yeah, good point. Slight case of tunnel vision.
> >
>
> Actually, I only just figured out that PrePiLib *does* have a status
> code router.
>
> This is slightly dodgy (as is PrePi in general) since it uses a HOB to
> expose function pointers into the SEC module, but from the protocol
> client pov, it is just a status code router as any other.
>
> Note that my comment still applies to other platforms that don't use
> PrePi (the Styx ones)

... it is not entirely clear to me though how the GUID hobs
representing protocol GUIDs get installed into the protocol database.

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