https://bugzilla.tianocore.org/show_bug.cgi?id=228
Add a utility that converts a binary file into a VOID* PCD value
or a full DSC file VOID* PCD statement with support for all the
DSC supported PCD sections.
usage: BinToPcd [-h] [--version] -i INPUTFILE [-o OUTPUTFILE] [-p PCDNAME]
[-t {VPD,HII}] [-m MAXSIZE] [-f OFFSET] [-n VARIABLENAME]
[-g VARIABLEGUID] [-v] [-q] [--debug [0-9]]
Convert a binary file to a VOID* PCD value or DSC file VOID* PCD statement.
Copyright (c) 2016, Intel Corporation. All rights reserved.
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
--version show program's version number and exit
-i INPUTFILE, --input INPUTFILE
Input binary filename
-o OUTPUTFILE, --output OUTPUTFILE
Output filename for PCD value or PCD statement
-p PCDNAME, --pcd PCDNAME
Name of the PCD in the form
<PcdTokenSpaceGuidCName>.<PcdCName>
-t {VPD,HII}, --type {VPD,HII}
PCD statement type (HII or VPD). Default is standard.
-m MAXSIZE, --max-size MAXSIZE
Maximum size of the PCD. Ignored with --type HII.
-f OFFSET, --offset OFFSET
VPD offset if --type is VPD. UEFI Variable offset if
--type is HII.
-n VARIABLENAME, --variable-name VARIABLENAME
UEFI variable name. Only used with --type HII.
-g VARIABLEGUID, --variable-guid VARIABLEGUID
UEFI variable GUID C name. Only used with --type HII.
-v, --verbose Increase output messages
-q, --quiet Reduce output messages
--debug [0-9] Set debug level
This utility can be used in PCD value mode to convert a binary
file into a string that can then be copied into the PCD value field
of a VOID* PCD. The following is an example of PCD value mode on
an 8 byte test.bin file.
BinToPcd.py -i test.bin
{0x48, 0x65, 0x6c, 0x6c, 0x6f, 0x20, 0x0d, 0x0a}
The DSC file VOID* PCD statement mode can be used to generate a
complete PCD statement for the PCD section types that a DSC file
supports:
[PcdsFixedAtBuild]
[PcdsPatchableInModule]
[PcdsDynamicDefault]
[PcdsDynamicExDefault]
[PcdsDynamicVpd]
[PcdsDynamicExVpd]
[PcdsDynamicHii]
[PcdsDynamicExHii]
The PCD statement mode is useful when combined with a !include
statement in a DSC file. BinToPcd.py can be used to convert a
binary file to a PCD statement in an output file, and that output
file can be included into a DSC file in the matching PCD section
to set the value of the PCD to the value from the binary file
without having to copy the value into the DSC file. Updates can be
made to the included file without editing the DSC file. Some
example use cases are the setting the public key PCDs such as:
gEfiSecurityPkgTokenSpaceGuid.PcdRsa2048Sha256PublicKeyBuffer
gEfiSecurityPkgTokenSpaceGuid.PcdPkcs7CertBuffer
The following example converts a public key binary file to a
[PcdsFixedAtBuild] compatible PCD statement:
BinToPcd.py -i PublicKey.bin -o PublicKey.pcd
--pcd gEfiSecurityPkgTokenSpaceGuid.PcdPkcs7CertBufferkenSpaceGuid
The PublicKey.pcd output file contains a single line:
gEfiSecurityPkgTokenSpaceGuid.PcdPkcs7CertBuffer|{0x48, ...}
A DSC file can be updated to include the PublicKey.pcd file:
[PcdsFixedAtBuild]
!include PublicKey.pcd
Value examples
===============
BinToPcd.py -i test.bin
{0x68, 0x65, 0x6c, 0x6c, 0x6f, 0x20, 0x0d, 0x0a}
Normal examples:
=================
BinToPcd.py -i test.bin -p Guid.Token
Guid.Token|{0x68, 0x65, 0x6c, 0x6c, 0x6f, 0x20, 0x0d, 0x0a}
BinToPcd.py -i test.bin -p Guid.Token -m 20
Guid.Token|{0x68, 0x65, 0x6c, 0x6c, 0x6f, 0x20, 0x0d, 0x0a}|VOID*|20
VPD examples:
=============
BinToPcd.py -i test.bin -p Guid.Token -t VPD
Guid.Name|*|8|{0x48, 0x65, 0x6c, 0x6c, 0x6f, 0x20, 0x0d, 0x0a}
BinToPcd.py -i test.bin -p Guid.Token -t VPD -f 20
Guid.Name|20|8|{0x48, 0x65, 0x6c, 0x6c, 0x6f, 0x20, 0x0d, 0x0a}
BinToPcd.py -i test.bin -p Guid.Token -t VPD -m 10
Guid.Name|*|10|{0x48, 0x65, 0x6c, 0x6c, 0x6f, 0x20, 0x0d, 0x0a}
BinToPcd.py -i test.bin -p Guid.Token -t VPD -f 20 -m 10
Guid.Name|20|10|{0x48, 0x65, 0x6c, 0x6c, 0x6f, 0x20, 0x0d, 0x0a}
HII examples:
=============
BinToPcd.py -i test.bin -p Guid.Token -t HII -g VarGuid -n VarName
Guid.Name|L"VarName"|VarGuid|0|{0x48, 0x65, 0x6c, 0x6c}
BinToPcd.py -i test.bin -p Guid.Token -t HII -g VarGuid -n VarName -f 8
Guid.Name|L"VarName"|VarGuid|8|{0x48, 0x65, 0x6c, 0x6c}
Cc: Yonghong Zhu <yonghong.zhu@intel.com>
Cc: Liming Gao <liming.gao@intel.com>
Contributed-under: TianoCore Contribution Agreement 1.0
Signed-off-by: Michael Kinney <michael.d.kinney@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Liming Gao <liming.gao@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Yonghong Zhu <yonghong.zhu@intel.com>
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
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