Thank you so much, that's exactly what we needed! :D
2013/7/18 Andrew Fish <af...@apple.com>
> It is possible to use gBS->CreateEventEx() to register for an
> EFI_EVENT_GROUP_READY_TO_BOOT to know that the system is about to attempt
> to boot. This is generally used to complete tables needed for the OS
> handoff.
>
> It is possible to gBS->RegisterProtocolNotify() for EFI_LOADED_IMAGE_PROTOCOL
> to know when an image is loaded.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Andrew Fish
>
>
> On Jul 18, 2013, at 11:28 AM, Felipe Martins <ffm...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello everyone,
>
> My team needs to implement an UEFI driver(A service driver, to be precise)
> that exports a few functions and consumes the protocols from a third-party
> UEFI driver to execute a relatively complex routine. This latter routine
> should preferably be executed after all the other UEFI images are loaded
> during the boot(I can't detail why this is so). Given these constraints,
> We've come to the following points:
>
>
> - We could execute the routine in the driver entry point: however,
> there are no guarantees that the third-party driver protocol will be
> available when our driver is loaded(since it's not possible to specify
> dependencies among UEFI drivers);
> - We could register the routine as a notification function for an *
> EVT_SIGNAL_EXIT_BOOT_SERVICES* event: this would guarantee that our
> driver is loaded after the third-party one and would address the preference
> mentioned in the previous paragraph, but it imposes the serious limitation
> of not being able to use Memory Allocation services in this routine, which
> makes it impossible to be implemented, in practice. As far as I understood
> from the specs, there are also no guarantees that the third-party driver
> will still be in memory when the routine is called.
>
> So, here comes my doubt: is it possible to, somehow, specify a dependency
> among UEFI drivers(i.e, to guarantee that one driver is loaded before the
> other)? Also, are there any workarounds to the issues raised about using
> the *EVT_SIGNAL_EXIT_BOOT_SERVICES* event?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
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