Re: [edk2] [patch] MdeModulePkg: Make HII configuration settings available to OS runtime

2016-02-23 Thread Dong, Eric
Liming; Bi, Dandan; Kinney, > Michael D; edk2-devel@lists.01.org > Subject: Re: [edk2] [patch] MdeModulePkg: Make HII configuration settings > available to OS runtime > > Even with a single export @ ReadyToBoot, I still think we need a PCD to > allow implementations to disable the

Re: [edk2] [patch] MdeModulePkg: Make HII configuration settings available to OS runtime

2016-02-23 Thread El-Haj-Mahmoud, Samer
, 2016 11:52 AM To: Dong, Eric ; Andrew Fish Cc: Hale, Robert P ; Rothman, Michael A ; Gao, Liming ; Bi, Dandan ; Kinney, Michael D ; edk2-devel@lists.01.org Subject: Re: [edk2] [patch] MdeModulePkg: Make HII configuration settings available to OS runtime On 02/22/2016 09:00 PM, Dong, Eric wrote

Re: [edk2] [patch] MdeModulePkg: Make HII configuration settings available to OS runtime

2016-02-23 Thread Brian J. Johnson
mer.el-haj-mahm...@hpe.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2016 2:14 AM To: Andrew Fish; Brian J. Johnson Cc: Bi, Dandan; edk2-devel@lists.01.org; Dong, Eric; Gao, Liming Subject: RE: [edk2] [patch] MdeModulePkg: Make HII configuration settings available to OS runtime +1 I also would add there may be s

Re: [edk2] [patch] MdeModulePkg: Make HII configuration settings available to OS runtime

2016-02-22 Thread Dong, Eric
lex server platform with a large amount of > HII data. On this platform, we end up disabling the largest but least > used setup screens when running on the simulator, simply to avoid the > time overhead of processing the HII data. This saves many minutes of > execution time. > >

Re: [edk2] [patch] MdeModulePkg: Make HII configuration settings available to OS runtime

2016-02-22 Thread Dong, Eric
> Cc: El-Haj-Mahmoud, Samer; Bi, Dandan; edk2-devel@lists.01.org; Gao, Liming; > Rothman, Michael A; Hale, Robert P; Kinney, Michael D > Subject: Re: [edk2] [patch] MdeModulePkg: Make HII configuration settings > available to OS runtime > > On 02/17/2016 10:25 PM, Andrew Fish w

Re: [edk2] [patch] MdeModulePkg: Make HII configuration settings available to OS runtime

2016-02-18 Thread Brian J. Johnson
ay, February 17, 2016 2:14 AM To: Andrew Fish; Brian J. Johnson Cc: Bi, Dandan; edk2-devel@lists.01.org; Dong, Eric; Gao, Liming Subject: RE: [edk2] [patch] MdeModulePkg: Make HII configuration settings available to OS runtime +1 I also would add there may be some HII strings that are h

Re: [edk2] [patch] MdeModulePkg: Make HII configuration settings available to OS runtime

2016-02-17 Thread Andrew Fish
PCD to control it. > > Thanks, > Eric > >> -Original Message- >> From: El-Haj-Mahmoud, Samer [mailto:samer.el-haj-mahm...@hpe.com] >> Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2016 2:14 AM >> To: Andrew Fish; Brian J. Johnson >> Cc: Bi, Dandan; edk2-devel@lists.

Re: [edk2] [patch] MdeModulePkg: Make HII configuration settings available to OS runtime

2016-02-17 Thread Dong, Eric
son > Cc: Bi, Dandan; edk2-devel@lists.01.org; Gao, Liming; Dong, Eric; Rothman, > Michael A; Hale, Robert P; Kinney, Michael D > Subject: RE: [edk2] [patch] MdeModulePkg: Make HII configuration settings > available to OS runtime > > Hi All, > > Thanks for your comments. I

Re: [edk2] [patch] MdeModulePkg: Make HII configuration settings available to OS runtime

2016-02-17 Thread Dong, Eric
n J. Johnson > Cc: Dandan Bi ; edk2-devel@lists.01.org; Eric Dong > ; Liming Gao > Subject: Re: [edk2] [patch] MdeModulePkg: Make HII configuration settings > available to OS runtime > > > > On Feb 16, 2016, at 8:33 AM, Brian J. Johnson wrote: > > > > On 02/

Re: [edk2] [patch] MdeModulePkg: Make HII configuration settings available to OS runtime

2016-02-16 Thread El-Haj-Mahmoud, Samer
-devel [mailto:edk2-devel-boun...@lists.01.org] On Behalf Of Andrew Fish Sent: Tuesday, February 16, 2016 10:37 AM To: Brian J. Johnson Cc: Dandan Bi ; edk2-devel@lists.01.org; Eric Dong ; Liming Gao Subject: Re: [edk2] [patch] MdeModulePkg: Make HII configuration settings available to OS runtime

Re: [edk2] [patch] MdeModulePkg: Make HII configuration settings available to OS runtime

2016-02-16 Thread Andrew Fish
> On Feb 16, 2016, at 8:33 AM, Brian J. Johnson wrote: > > On 02/16/2016 12:58 AM, Dandan Bi wrote: >> This feature is aimed to allow OS make use of the HII database >> during runtime. In this case, the contents of the HII Database >> is exported to a buffer. The pointer to the buffer is placed

Re: [edk2] [patch] MdeModulePkg: Make HII configuration settings available to OS runtime

2016-02-16 Thread Brian J. Johnson
On 02/16/2016 12:58 AM, Dandan Bi wrote: This feature is aimed to allow OS make use of the HII database during runtime. In this case, the contents of the HII Database is exported to a buffer. The pointer to the buffer is placed in the EFI System Configuration Table, where it can be retrieved by a

[edk2] [patch] MdeModulePkg: Make HII configuration settings available to OS runtime

2016-02-15 Thread Dandan Bi
This feature is aimed to allow OS make use of the HII database during runtime. In this case, the contents of the HII Database is exported to a buffer. The pointer to the buffer is placed in the EFI System Configuration Table, where it can be retrieved by an OS application. Export the configuration