In my memory, GenBiosId source code isn't open source code.
There is a spec for BIOSID.  You can check that for format and organization .

Thx,
Amos

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From: edk2-devel [mailto:edk2-devel-boun...@lists.01.org] On Behalf Of Bruce 
Cran
Sent: Wednesday, November 25, 2015 11:30 AM
To: Justen, Jordan L <jordan.l.jus...@intel.com>; Wei, David 
<david....@intel.com>; He, Tim <tim...@intel.com>
Cc: edk2-devel@lists.01.org
Subject: Re: [edk2] Vlv2TbltDevicePkg/GenBiosId binary

On 11/24/15 3:03 PM, Jordan Justen wrote:

> I wonder why this binary exists in EDK II without source code.
>
> I also notice that Vlv2TbltDevicePkg/GenBiosId is a 32-bit ELF 
> executable. What if someone wanted to build Vlv2TbltDevicePkg on X64 
> and they didn't have 32-bit userspace available?

I took a look at the output of GenBiosId a few months ago and seem to recall 
there wasn't anything that looked especially complex. If it came to it, I 
suspect the contents could easily be updated with a hex editor to be valid.

--
Bruce

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