On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 10:09 AM, Paulo Alcantara <pca...@zytor.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Wed, August 20, 2014 11:31 pm, Tian, Feng wrote:
>> Thanks for the great job!
>
> Thank you! It was a lot of fun, though.
>
>> My personal thought likes the idea to add a new package to place your UDF
>> driver, but let's see if there is different opinion.
>>
>> And I am not sure if we can split it to two layers, one is in PartitionDxe
>> driver to parse UDF volume descriptor, another layer is like FatDxe to
>> parse UDF file system format. Formalizing UDF device path may be another
>> concern.
>
> When I started writing the driver, I initially thought it could be part of
> PartitionDxe like you said, but the PartitionDxe is just a driver that
> follows _exactly_ the path defined by UEFI specification. UDF filesystems
> aren't supposed to be recognised or even parsed by firmware as per UEFI
> specification.

I looked a little at the spec, but I couldn't find this. Can you point
out what you are referring to?

-Jordan

> If there's no problem at all regarding to put UDF code into PartitionDxe,
> that would be definitely better. The current code that checks if the block
> device has an UDF volume (e.g. IsSupportedUdfVolume()) would be moved to
> PartitionDxe and then an EFI_BLOCK_IO_PROTOCOL be provided to each
> partition found.
>
> Thanks for the suggestions.
>
>     -pcacjr
>
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