On 09/19/2014 12:10 PM, Hauch, Larry wrote:
>
> In order to facilitate validation of INF files, we will also like to
> create a new tool that can be used for content (not format) validation
> of INF and DEC files. This tool would take two files as arguments,
> either DEC or INF files, and do an object level comparison.
>
> I would also like to know if we should also provide the ability (option
> flag) to process two different directory trees as part of this tool?
>
> Please let me know if there are other features that should be included
> here, such as what you would like to see from adding a -v, --verbose flag.
>
It would be handy to have something which could compare DSC files as
well. Often an OEM's platform is based on a reference design from a
silicon vendor. It would be handy to be able to see what had changed
between the shipping platform and the reference design: modules added
and removed, library instances changed, etc.
It would be even more handy to have a tool to sanity check DSC vs FDF
files, to find INF files listed in one but not the other. (I know, not
everything that gets built necessarily needs to go in the firmware
image, and not everything in the image is built from a DSC. But in most
cases, a mismatch is an error.) As it is, if I add an INF to the FDF
but not the DSC, I get a cryptic error message. And if I add it to the
DSC but not the FDF, there's no build-time error at all: the module is
just mysteriously missing from the firmware, and I need to determine
this the hard way by examining the boot output.
Sorry, that's not quite what you were asking about. But as long as
you're writing tools....
Thanks,
--
Brian Johnson
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