[edk2] FDF dependency?

2017-03-15 Thread Foster, Matthew I
Is there a compile time dependency on values provided in the FDF file? I am facing a situation where I am using pre-built binaries for some modules when building. We had a need to create another FDF file to create a separate flash image with different values, but finding that some of the

[edk2] EFI shell script

2017-01-26 Thread Foster, Matthew I
Is there any version of the EFI shell or library that implements performing simple arithmetic operations on numeric values stored in the shell environment variables in an EFI shell script? ___ edk2-devel mailing list edk2-devel@lists.01.org

Re: [edk2] UnicodeError: UTF-16 stream does not start with BOM error when update from UDK2015 to latest Github trunk

2016-08-31 Thread Foster, Matthew I
Is there a way to work-around this error without having to upgrade to the newest BaseTools? -Original Message- From: edk2-devel [mailto:edk2-devel-boun...@lists.01.org] On Behalf Of Gao, Liming Sent: Monday, February 29, 2016 11:08 PM To: wang xiaofeng ;

Re: [edk2] Using the Shell to launch a kernel using a RAMDISK

2016-05-17 Thread Foster, Matthew I
, other code should not be able to allocate and use that same address range right? Even during exit boot services? -Original Message- From: Laszlo Ersek [mailto:ler...@redhat.com] Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2016 11:41 AM To: Foster, Matthew I <matthew.i.fos...@intel.com> Cc: edk2-devel

Re: [edk2] Using the Shell to launch a kernel using a RAMDISK

2016-05-17 Thread Foster, Matthew I
memmap=0x00F42000$0x0C235000 size =0x00F42000 address: 0x0C235000 -Original Message- From: af...@apple.com [mailto:af...@apple.com] Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2016 10:47 AM To: Foster, Matthew I <matthew.i.fos...@intel.com> Cc: edk2-devel@lists.01.org Subject: Re: [edk2] Using the

Re: [edk2] Using the Shell to launch a kernel using a RAMDISK

2016-05-17 Thread Foster, Matthew I
:0x00F42000@0x(RootFileSystem-RAM) phram.phram=RAM0,0x0C235000,0x00F42000 memmap=0x00F42000$0x0C235000 -Original Message- From: af...@apple.com [mailto:af...@apple.com] Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2016 10:24 AM To: Foster, Matthew I <matthew.i.fos...@intel.com> Cc: edk2-devel@lists.

[edk2] Using the Shell to launch a kernel using a RAMDISK

2016-05-17 Thread Foster, Matthew I
I am trying to boot a linux kernel from within the shell that is using a ramdisk filesystem. I allocate memory in the shell for a ramdisk. I read the filesystem out of flash memory after allocating memory in the shell: KernelRootFS = AllocatePages(((KernelFSSize/FOUR_KB_ALIGNED) +1)); I then

[edk2] EDK2 and VS2015

2015-12-02 Thread Foster, Matthew I
Does anyone have any information about compiling EDK2 using Visual Studio 2015? Is it supported? ___ edk2-devel mailing list edk2-devel@lists.01.org https://lists.01.org/mailman/listinfo/edk2-devel

[edk2] EDK2 windows compile

2015-11-16 Thread Foster, Matthew I
I recently ran into a scenario where a developer has installed Visual Studio to the D:\ driver on a Windows machine. When we go to build in EDK2 we get the following error. build... : error 7000: Failed to start command It appears that EDK2 only supports building with VS installed on the C:\

[edk2] VS tools version and code size

2015-09-15 Thread Foster, Matthew I
I have noticed that while compiling using Visual Studio 2008 the code size is much smaller compared to using a later version of Visual Studio, like 2012. Does anyone have any experience as to why that is? Are there any recommended configurations or changes needed when using a later version of