Tim,
I feel your pain. The working process for the tools is very hard to deal with
if you are external to Intel. Even if you contribute something you have no idea
with the BaseTools project will sync the change back in the edk2 project.
Andrew Fish
On Aug 10, 2012, at 11:23 AM, Tim Lewis wrote:
> One of the notable gaps in the EDK2 environment is build support for the UEFI
> HII concepts for fonts, strings (with fonts), images and animations. There
> are probably 20 press releases in the past year where people are talking
> about the usage of these. However, there is no way to create an EDK2-based
> driver which plays in these solutions. More importantly (as an IBV) I don’t
> want to implement a solution, only to have it stomped on by a future EDK2
> contribution.
>
> The .UNI spec (in the EDK2 build document) describes some font-related tags,
> but is unimplemented. The .VFR document supports IMAGE_TOKEN (but not
> ANIMATION_TOKEN), but the build tools don’t provide an analog to .UNI for
> images or animations.
>
> Are there draft specification updates from Intel or others that could be
> shared in order to give comment prior to code being committed? Frankly
> code-commit is too late because it creates a de-facto standard.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Tim
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