Re: [edk2-devel] DSC nightmare

2023-03-01 Thread Nate DeSimone
l@edk2.groups.io Subject: [edk2-devel] DSC nightmare Hi Andrew, (I appreciate this is the wrong group - I subbed to the discussion thread on groups.io<http://groups.io>, but it decided to post here instead - oh well). Thank you for the comprehensive response, I understand there is lots of X86

[edk2-devel] DSC nightmare

2023-02-24 Thread Benjamin Mordaunt
Hi Andrew, (I appreciate this is the wrong group - I subbed to the discussion thread on groups.io, but it decided to post here instead - oh well). Thank you for the comprehensive response, I understand there is lots of X86 legacy embedded in all parts of the EFI architecture. Perhaps you could

Re: [edk2-devel] DSC nightmare

2023-02-22 Thread Andrew Fish via groups.io
Ben, I’d say the tools are optimized to be general purpose. So they are not really designed to be the easy button. In terms of things like SEC/PEI or DXE it is very common for this code on x86 to be compiled for different architectures. SEC/PEI is usually i386 and DXE is x86_64. Crazy I know

[edk2-devel] DSC nightmare

2023-02-22 Thread Benjamin Mordaunt
Hi, I am working on implementing a new Arm platform in edk2-platforms, and have reached the stage of tackling writing a DSC to describe it, along with a "dsc.inc" which contains defines etc. common to platforms sharing the same SoC. I'm using, as reference the platforms currently present in