Hi, I'm trying to write up a document on how to buid a UEFI 'boot disk', trying to target EFI 1.x as well as UEFI 2.x systems, for all architectures UEFI supports. One goal is to use pre-built binaries, for sysadmins, so I don't want to resort to telling user to compile their own binaries, if at all possible.
I don't see any docs as part of the UEFI Forum specs or RodsBooks web site. If I missed the proper docs, please give me an URL. I have a few questions about which binaries to use, and some pre-EDK2 historical usage, please. Q0) If I want to use full (not minimal) pre-built TianoCore binaries for shell, to use on EFI 1.x systems I need to use: * edk2/trunk/edk2/EdkShellBinPkg/FullShell/Ia32/Shell_Full.efi * edk2/trunk/edk2/EdkShellBinPkg/FullShell/X64/Shell_Full.efi * edk2/trunk/edk2/EdkShellBinPkg/FullShell/Arm/Shell_Full.efi * edk2/trunk/edk2/EdkShellBinPkg/FullShell/AArch64/Shell_Full.efi * edk2/trunk/edk2/EdkShellBinPkg/FullShell/Ipf/Shell_Full.efi and for UEFI 2.x systems, I need to use: * edk2/trunk/edk2/ShellBinPkg/UefiShell/Ia32/Shell.efi * edk2/trunk/edk2/ShellBinPkg/UefiShell/X64/Shell.efi * edk2/trunk/edk2/ShellBinPkg/UefiShell/Arm/Shell.efi * edk2/trunk/edk2/ShellBinPkg/UefiShell/AArch64/Shell.efi Renamed to Shell.efi and put in it's proper ESP subdirectory. Correct? Q1) Unlike oher archs, I don't see any edk2/trunk/edk2/ShellBinPkg/UfiShell built for Itanium. How does someone build a UEFI boot disk that works on Itanium, if there's no provided shell? Did TianoCore codebase stop supporting Itanium binary releases, and is there an alternate source of Itanium binaries from Intel? Q2) why is it called 'NShell', does N mean "New"? Newer than what, what was the old EFI shell called? Or is this New as in replacement for MS-DOS / OS/2 shell? Q3) Why are the x86, x64, and IPF binaries for older EDK Contrib and EDK apparently mirrored? Both have Edk/Other/Maintained/Application/UefiShell, why use one tree -vs- the other? edkcontrib/trunk/Edk/Other/Maintained/Application/UefiShell/bin/x64/Shell_Full.efi edkcontrib/trunk/Edk/Other/Maintained/Application/UefiShell/bin/x64/Shell.efi edkcontrib/trunk/Edk/Other/Maintained/Application/UefiShell/bin/ia32/Shell_Full.efi edkcontrib/trunk/Edk/Other/Maintained/Application/UefiShell/bin/ia32/Shell.efi edkcontrib/trunk/Edk/Other/Maintained/Application/UefiShell/bin/ipf/Shell_Full.efi edkcontrib/trunk/Edk/Other/Maintained/Application/UefiShell/bin/ipf/Shell.efi efidevkit/trunk/Edk/Other/Maintained/Application/UefiShell/bin/x64/Shell_Full.efi efidevkit/trunk/Edk/Other/Maintained/Application/UefiShell/bin/x64/Shell.efi efidevkit/trunk/Edk/Other/Maintained/Application/UefiShell/bin/ia32/Shell_Full.efi efidevkit/trunk/Edk/Other/Maintained/Application/UefiShell/bin/ia32/Shell.efi efidevkit/trunk/Edk/Other/Maintained/Application/UefiShell/bin/ipf/Shell_Full.efi efidevkit/trunk/Edk/Other/Maintained/Application/UefiShell/bin/ipf/Shell.efi Q4) Why does some older releases (EDK, EDK Contrib, EFI Toolkit) -- and only ARM32 on new EDK2 releases -- have the shell called "NShell.efi" where later it is called "Shell.efi" (or other min/full variations)? Especially why only ARM32 on EDK2? edk2/trunk/edk2/EdkShellBinPkg/Bin/Arm/NShell.efi efi-toolkit/trunk/efi-toolkit/binaries/em64t/NShell.efi efi-toolkit/trunk/efi-toolkit/binaries/nt32/NShell.efi efi-toolkit/trunk/efi-toolkit/binaries/bios32/NShell.efi efi-toolkit/trunk/efi-toolkit/binaries/sal64/NShell.efi edkcontrib/trunk/Edk/Other/Maintained/Application/UefiShell/bin/ia32/Apps/NShell.efi edkcontrib/trunk/Edk/Other/Maintained/Application/UefiShell/bin/ipf/Apps/NShell.efi edkcontrib/trunk/Edk/Other/Maintained/Application/UefiShell/bin/x64/Apps/NShell.efi efidevkit/trunk/Edk/Other/Maintained/Application/UefiShell/bin/ia32/Apps/NShell.efi efidevkit/trunk/Edk/Other/Maintained/Application/UefiShell/bin/ipf/Apps/NShell.efi efidevkit/trunk/Edk/Other/Maintained/Application/UefiShell/bin/x64/Apps/NShell.efi Thanks! Lee ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ edk2-devel mailing list edk2-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/edk2-devel
