On 04/05/2020 18:55, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
On Mon, 4 May 2020 at 19:43, Grant Likely <[email protected]> wrote:

Reference UEFI v2.8 throughout. v2.8 is the first version that defines
the RuntimeServicesSupported variable.

Fixes: #40
Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <[email protected]>

This should refer to UEFI 2.8 errata A directly, which is the release
that replaces the RuntimeServicesSupported variable with a
configuration table.
And that probably means this chapter needs an update as well.

Ah, yes. Let me go read the spec changes and get an updated patch out.

g.


---
  source/chapter2-uefi.rst | 4 ++--
  source/references.rst    | 6 +++---
  2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/source/chapter2-uefi.rst b/source/chapter2-uefi.rst
index f2e5393..341a4f1 100644
--- a/source/chapter2-uefi.rst
+++ b/source/chapter2-uefi.rst
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ platforms.

  UEFI Version
  ============
-This document uses version 2.7 of the UEFI specification [UEFI]_.
+This document uses version 2.8 of the UEFI specification [UEFI]_.

  UEFI Compliance
  ===============
@@ -212,7 +212,7 @@ If a platform does not implement modifying non-volatile 
variables with
  SetVariable() after ExitBootServices(),
  then firmware shall return EFI_UNSUPPORTED for any call to SetVariable(),
  and must advertise that SetVariable() isn't available during runtime services
-via the `RuntimeServicesSupported` variable as defined in UEFI version 2.8.
+via the `RuntimeServicesSupported` variable as defined in [UEFI]_ ยง 8.1.
  EFI applications can read `RuntimeServicesSupported` to determine if calls
  to SetVariable() need to be performed before calling ExitBootServices().

diff --git a/source/references.rst b/source/references.rst
index a12c1a2..57d42e0 100644
--- a/source/references.rst
+++ b/source/references.rst
@@ -20,6 +20,6 @@
     
<https://static.docs.arm.com/den0044/b/DEN0044B_Server_Base_Boot_Requirements.pdf>`_
     8 March 2016, `Arm Limited <http://arm.com>`_

-.. [UEFI] `Unified Extensable Firmware Interface Specification v2.7A
-   
<http://www.uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/UEFI%20Spec%202_7_A%20Sept%206.pdf>`_,
-   August 2017, `UEFI Forum <http://www.uefi.org>`_
+.. [UEFI] `Unified Extensable Firmware Interface Specification v2.8
+   
<http://www.uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/UEFI%20Spec%202_8_final.pdf>`_,
+   March 2019, `UEFI Forum <http://www.uefi.org>`_
--
2.20.1

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