On 05/13/2016 04:37 PM, Andrew Fish wrote:
> 
>> On May 13, 2016, at 3:20 PM, David Van Arnem <dvanar...@cmlab.biz> wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Is there a specific method that should be used to generate FILE_GUIDs in
>> an EDK2 INF file?  A quick look through the INF spec only suggests that
>> FILE_GUIDs should be in Registry 8-4-4-4-12 format and unique.  Are
>> there any other requirements?
>>
> 
> They have to be valid GUID/UUIDs per RFC 4122. So you can't hand edit them. 
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universally_unique_identifier
> 
> VC++ has guidgen.txt
> Linux has uuidgen
> There are web pages. https://www.uuidgenerator.net
> 
> I wrote a small Python script to generate the  8-4-4-4-12 and EFI_GUID C 
> structure format at the same time. 

Thank you!

David

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> Andrew Fish
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