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Liming Gao 2b8a6c44e0 BaseTools: PcdDataBase Optimization for multiple SkuIds
https://bugzilla.tianocore.org/show_bug.cgi?id=546
BaseTools will generate the optimized PCD database to save the image size
at build time for multiple SKUs. The optimized PCD database layout will be like
below, the PCD database will be composed of the full default SKU data
(PCD_DATABASE_INIT) and the non-default SKU delta data(PCD_DATABASE_SKU_DELTA).
PCD driver will build HOB to store the full default SKU data, and patch HOB
data based on non-default SKU delta data for the SKU set by SetSku(),
it can save memory resource at boot time.

//
// PCD database layout:
// +---------------------------------+
// | PCD_DATABASE_INIT (DEFAULT SKU) |
// +---------------------------------+
// | PCD_DATABASE_SKU_DELTA (SKU A)  |
// +---------------------------------+
// | PCD_DATABASE_SKU_DELTA (SKU B)  |
// +---------------------------------+
// | ......                          |
// +---------------------------------+
//

BaseTools, PCD database and driver updates are needed for this proposal.
For single SKU (default) case, this proposal is expected to have no impact.
For multi-SKU case, PCD database format will be changed.
So, PcdDataBase Version is also updated from 6 to 7.

Contributed-under: TianoCore Contribution Agreement 1.1
Signed-off-by: Feng Bob C <bob.c.feng@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Liming Gao <liming.gao@intel.com>
2017-12-25 11:05:47 +08:00
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This directory contains the next generation of EDK II build tools and template files.
Templates are located in the Conf directory, while the tools executables for
Microsoft Windows 32-bit Operating Systems are located in the Bin\Win32 directory, other 
directory contatins tools source.

1. Build step to generate the binary tools.

=== Windows/Visual Studio Notes ===

To build the BaseTools, you should run the standard vsvars32.bat script
from your preferred Visual Studio installation or you can run get_vsvars.bat
to use latest automatically detected version.

In addition to this, you should set the following environment variables:

 * EDK_TOOLS_PATH - Path to the BaseTools sub directory under the edk2 tree
 * BASE_TOOLS_PATH - The directory where the BaseTools source is located.
   (It is the same directory where this README.txt is located.)
 * PYTHON_FREEZER_PATH - Path to where the python freezer tool is installed

After this, you can run the toolsetup.bat file, which is in the same
directory as this file.  It should setup the remainder of the environment,
and build the tools if necessary.

Please also refer to the 'BuildNotes.txt' file for more information on
building under Windows.

=== Unix-like operating systems ===

To build on Unix-like operating systems, you only need to type 'make' in
the base directory of the project.

=== Ubuntu Notes ===

On Ubuntu, the following command should install all the necessary build
packages to build all the C BaseTools:

  sudo apt-get install build-essential uuid-dev

=== Python sqlite3 module ===
On Windows, the cx_freeze will not copy the sqlite3.dll to the frozen 
binary directory (the same directory as build.exe and GenFds.exe). 
Please copy it manually from <PythonHome>\DLLs.

The Python distributed with most recent Linux will have sqlite3 module
built in. If not, please install sqlit3 package separately.

26-OCT-2011