According to UEFI spec:
Once an image is loaded, LoadImage() installs
EFI_HII_PACKAGE_LIST_PROTOCOL on the handle if the image contains a
custom PE/COFF resource with the type 'HII'. The protocol's
interface pointer points to the HII package list which is contained
in the resource's data.
This is controlled by the UEFI_HII_RESOURCE_SECTION define in the INF
file. When present the HII resource is linked with the module
binary.
Unfortunately GCC-built binaries have been stripping the .hii section
entirely. See "[edk2] HII gEfiHiiPackageListProtocolGuid problem
with GCC48(VS2012x86 works)"
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.bios.tianocore.devel/13438http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.bios.tianocore.devel/14899
This patch tells the linker to preserve the .hii sections
Contributed-under: TianoCore Contribution Agreement 1.0
Signed-off-by: Thomas Palmer <thomas.palmer@hpe.com>
Acked-by: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Bruce Cran <bruce.cran@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Bruce Cran <bruce.cran@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Yonghong Zhu <yonghong.zhu@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Liming Gao <liming.gao@intel.com>
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