Re: [edk] Fwd: Porting from EDK I to EDK II

[Jordan J. <jlj...@gm...>]

Daniel,

You might posting your question to edk2-devel.

http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/tianocore/index.php?title=Mailing_Lists

-Jordan

On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 08:45, EDK <ed...@gm...> wrote:
> Hi Tian and David,
>
> Can you please help answer below questions?
>
> In addiiton can you please provide the EDK II group email ID where I can
> raise questions and get clarifications.
> Thanks,
> Daniel
> On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 7:08 PM, EDK <ed...@gm...> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> How would I ensure that EDK Compatibility Package is included?
>>
>> Porting EDK 1.06 source to EDK II (UDK 2010 UP4)... To build my source in
>> EDK II I needed to do the following:
>>
>>
>> ·         Convert INF file to new format
>>
>> ·
>>
>> Remove header files “Tiano.h”, “EfiDriverLib.h”, “PciIO.h”, etc and
>> include  <Uefi.h>, <Library/UefiLib.h>, <Protocol/LoadedImage.h>, etc
>>
>> ·
>>
>>          Some macro definitions were missing in UDK2010, so we have to
>> define them by ourselves. I have included those macros below
>>
>> o   #define EFI_SIGNATURE_16(A, B)        ((A) | (B << 8))
>>
>> o   #define EFI_SIGNATURE_32(A, B, C, D)  (EFI_SIGNATURE_16 (A, B) |
>> (EFI_SIGNATURE_16 (C, D) << 16))
>>
>> o   #define DevicePathNodeLength(a)     ( ((a)->Length[0]) |
>> ((a)->Length[1] << 8) )
>>
>> o   #define SetDevicePathNodeLength(a,l) {                \
>>
>> (a)->Length[0] = (UINT8) (l);               \
>>
>> (a)->Length[1] = (UINT8) ((l) >> 8);        \
>>
>> }
>>
>> ·         Make the “EFI_BOOT_SERVICES *gBS; EFI_RUNTIME_SERVICES *gRT; ”
>> statement in our file because the EfiDriverLibaray is no longer having this
>> gBS and gRT declaration.
>>
>> o   We need to get these pointer via “gBS =
>> SystemTable->BootServices;      gRT         = SystemTable->RuntimeServices;”
>>
>> ·         All EfiDriverLibrary functions need to be renamed.
>>
>> o   EfiLibAllocateZeroPool to AllocateZeroPool;
>>
>> o   EfiZeroMem to ZeroMem;
>>
>> o   EfiCopyMem to CopyMem;
>>
>> o   EfiSetMem to SetMem;
>> EfiLibLookupUnicodeString to LookupUnicodeString;
>>
>> Questions:
>> Is it true that every developer need to go through this... or is there a
>> way to avoid this? Should I not expect to build my EDK I source as is
>> without any issue in EDK II env?
>>
>> Appreciate the assistance!
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Dan
>