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Revision History
Revision Revision History Date
1.0 Initial release . December 2007
1.1 Updated based on errata August 2008
1,2 Updated based on enhancement requests June 2009
1.21 Updated to support UEFI 2.3 and PI 1.2 specifications
• Added new element, UEFI_HII_RESOURCE_SECTION to
[Defines] section
• Added new SMM_CORE module type
Updated for clarification
• Permit NULL values in place of PCD default values
Updated to correct items listed in the errata document
• Permit whitespace characters between token elements
• Fixed BuildOptions separator between Family and the tool
change information to match the “:’ implementation
Changes to appearance for readability
• Moved EDK INF description from sections 2 and 3 to an
Appendix
User feature requests:
• Updated the description of the FeatureFlag Expression for
all occurrences in Chapter 3 to be either a Shell style or a
C style expression.
March 2010
1.22 Grammatical and formatting changes. May 2010
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Contents
1
Introduction..................................................................................................... 1
1.1 Overview ........................................................................................................................... 1
1.2 Related Information........................................................................................................... 1
1.3 Terms................................................................................................................................ 2
1.4 Target Audience................................................................................................................ 4
1.5 Conventions Used in this Document................................................................................. 5
1.5.1 Data Structure Descriptions .................................................................................. 5
1.5.2 Pseudo-Code Conventions ................................................................................... 5
1.5.3 Typographic Conventions ..................................................................................... 5
2
INF Overview................................................................................................... 9
2.1 Processing Overview ........................................................................................................ 9
2.2 Information File Format.....................................................................................................9
2.2.1 Section Entries ...................................................................................................... 9
2.2.2 Comments........................................................................................................... 10
2.2.3 Valid Entries ........................................................................................................ 10
2.2.4 Naming Conventions........................................................................................... 11
2.2.5 !include Statements............................................................................................. 11
2.2.6 Macro Statements ............................................................................................... 11
2.2.7 PCD Names ........................................................................................................ 12
2.2.8 Conditional Directive Statements (!if...)............................................................... 12
2.3 EDK II INF....................................................................................................................... 12
2.4 [Defines] Section............................................................................................................. 13
2.5 [Sources] Section............................................................................................................ 17
2.6 [BuildOptions] Section..................................................................................................... 18
2.7 [Binaries] Section ............................................................................................................ 21
2.8 [Includes] Section........................................................................................................... 23
2.9 [Guids] Section................................................................................................................ 23
2.10 [Protocols] Section ........................................................................................................24
2.11 [Ppis] Section ................................................................................................................ 24
2.12 [LibraryClasses] Section ............................................................................................... 24
2.13 [Packages] Section ....................................................................................................... 25
2.14 PCD Sections............................................................................................................... 26
2.14.1 FIXED_AT_BUILD ............................................................................................ 26
2.14.2 PATCHABLE_IN_MODULE.............................................................................. 26
2.14.3 FEATURE_FLAG .............................................................................................. 27
2.14.4 DYNAMIC.......................................................................................................... 27
2.14.5 DYNAMIC_EX................................................................................................... 27
2.15 [Depex] Section............................................................................................................. 28
2.16 [UserExtensions] Section............................................................................................. 28
