Re: [edk2] edk2 interface deprecation policy

2017-12-01 Thread Laszlo Ersek
recatedPkg in edk2.) Thanks Laszlo >> -Original Message- >> From: edk2-devel [mailto:edk2-devel-boun...@lists.01.org] On Behalf Of Gao, >> Liming >> Sent: Friday, December 1, 2017 9:51 AM >> To: Felix Poludov <fel...@ami.com>; af...@apple.com >> Cc: e

Re: [edk2] edk2 interface deprecation policy

2017-11-30 Thread Zeng, Star
dk2-devel@lists.01.org Subject: Re: [edk2] edk2 interface deprecation policy I prefer to remove all deprecated items because I like clean:) But then lots of customer complains may come. So just provide my thoughts: Deprecated items can be separated into: 1. Definitions: E.g.: UgaDraw protocol, DriverC

Re: [edk2] edk2 interface deprecation policy

2017-11-30 Thread Zeng, Star
.org] On Behalf Of Gao, Liming Sent: Friday, December 1, 2017 9:51 AM To: Felix Poludov <fel...@ami.com>; af...@apple.com Cc: edk2-devel@lists.01.org Subject: Re: [edk2] edk2 interface deprecation policy Felix: I agree to define the tag to specify the deprecated definition, library and d

Re: [edk2] edk2 interface deprecation policy

2017-11-30 Thread Ni, Ruiyu
age- > From: edk2-devel [mailto:edk2-devel-boun...@lists.01.org] On Behalf Of Gao, > Liming > Sent: Friday, December 1, 2017 9:51 AM > To: Felix Poludov <fel...@ami.com>; af...@apple.com > Cc: edk2-devel@lists.01.org > Subject: Re: [edk2] edk2 interface deprecation policy >

Re: [edk2] edk2 interface deprecation policy

2017-11-30 Thread Gao, Liming
t;From: edk2-devel [mailto:edk2-devel-boun...@lists.01.org] On Behalf Of >Felix Poludov >Sent: Friday, December 01, 2017 6:12 AM >To: af...@apple.com >Cc: edk2-devel@lists.01.org >Subject: Re: [edk2] edk2 interface deprecation policy > >I agree. It would be beneficial to hav

Re: [edk2] edk2 interface deprecation policy

2017-11-30 Thread Felix Poludov
...@apple.com [mailto:af...@apple.com] Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2017 11:57 AM To: Felix Poludov Cc: edk2-devel@lists.01.org Subject: Re: [edk2] edk2 interface deprecation policy Felix, I don't think we have one Adding new interfaces does not impact the downstream projects, but depreciating

Re: [edk2] edk2 interface deprecation policy

2017-11-30 Thread Andrew Fish
Felix, I don't think we have one Adding new interfaces does not impact the downstream projects, but depreciating interface can break stuff. Seems like it might at least be a good idea to have a depreciation discussion on the mailing list. I'm open to other suggestions Thanks,

[edk2] edk2 interface deprecation policy

2017-11-30 Thread Felix Poludov
Does edk2 have a policy regarding deprecation of interface definition headers? I can see that definition of the UgaDraw protocol that was deprecated years ago (I believe in UEFI 2.0) is still part of the code base; yet, definition of the SMM Communication ACPI Table that was deprecated this year