[edk2-devel] [PATCH v3 3/3] ArmPkg: add Universal/Smbios as a generic SMBIOS library

[Leif Lindholm]

On Sun, Dec 06, 2020 at 21:59:48 -0700, Rebecca Cran wrote:
> On 11/19/20 5:58 AM, Leif Lindholm wrote:
> 
> > > +#define MAX_HANDLE_COUNT  0x10
> > Why?
> > Does this belong in a generic header?
>
> It's an arbitrary value, since the SMBIOS protocol doesn't have a way of
> letting you know how many records of a certain type are available without
> iterating through them. It might be better to just iterate twice.

Sadly, yes.
Avoiding hard-coding of sizes is worth some extra code.

/
    Leif


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