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| author | Konstantin Aladyshev <aladyshev22@gmail.com> | 2022-08-08 14:53:25 +0300 |
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| committer | Konstantin Aladyshev <aladyshev22@gmail.com> | 2022-08-08 14:53:25 +0300 |
| commit | 0cda4601cf92ba1679ef8fbe00e3e4a77e185d2e (patch) | |
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Add PcdToken guard for Dynamic PCD
Signed-off-by: Konstantin Aladyshev <aladyshev22@gmail.com>
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diff --git a/Lessons/Lesson_25/README.md b/Lessons/Lesson_25/README.md index 15b0b85..ccbcc90 100644 --- a/Lessons/Lesson_25/README.md +++ b/Lessons/Lesson_25/README.md @@ -144,6 +144,25 @@ PcdDynamicInt32=0xCAFECAFE PcdDynamicInt32=0xBEEFBEEF ``` +As we don't always use our application as a part of Ovmf package it would be better to guard the `PcdDynamicInt32` access for cases when local tokan is unassigned. + +We can do it with a help of a `PcdToken` macro: +``` +#define PcdToken(TokenName) _PCD_TOKEN_##TokenName +``` + +Code usage as simple as this: +``` +if (PcdToken(PcdDynamicInt32)) { + Print(L"PcdDynamicInt32=0x%x\n", PcdGet32(PcdDynamicInt32)); + PcdSet32S(PcdDynamicInt32, 0xBEEFBEEF); + Print(L"PcdDynamicInt32=0x%x\n", PcdGet32(PcdDynamicInt32)); +} else { + Print(L"PcdDynamicInt32 token is unassigned\n"); +} +``` +At least now if you accidently copy `Build/UefiLessonsPkg/RELEASE_GCC5/X64/PCDLesson.efi` instead of `Build/OvmfX64/RELEASE_GCC5/X64/PCDLesson.efi` the application won't break the OVMF. + # Dynamic Ex PCD Suppose we already have the necessary PCD in the PCD Database. And we want to access it via application from the UEFI Shell. |