[syslinux] HP EFI binaries

[Gene Cumm]

On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 9:26 AM, Michael Brown <mcb30 at ipxe.org> wrote:
> On 30/08/15 12:10, Gene Cumm via Syslinux wrote:
>>
>> Those should produce debug text listing the original PxeBc handle and
>> its full MAC then proceed to list the UDPv4Sb handles and their MACs.
>> I'm still trying to figure out if there's a way to get the handle
>> numbers that the shells use.
>
>
> I looked into this for iPXE.  From memory, it wasn't easily possible: the
> shell handle numbers conceptually exist only within that invocation of the
> shell, and don't represent any property of the underlying handle.
>
> If it helps,
> http://git.ipxe.org/ipxe.git/blob/HEAD:/src/interface/efi/efi_debug.c shows
> the code that iPXE uses to dump out meaningful labels for arbitrary handles.
> This generates names such as:
>
>   PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x3,0x0)/MAC(525400123456,0x1)
>   ConIn
>   wdsmgfw
>
> and when no descriptive naming scheme can be found, falls back to dumping
> the raw handle and a list of installed protocols, such as
>
>   UNKNOWN<0x3f0df318,SimpleTextIn,SimpleTextInEx>
>
> Michael

Thanks.  Digging around a few days ago I found it's a function in the
shell, ConvertHandleToHandleIndex(), that produces this, probably
based on an array of all of the handles.

-- 
-Gene