From: qhuang8 Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 05:16:13 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Add change log for the incompatible changes in MdePkg in Edk r9817. X-Git-Tag: edk2-stable201903~16515 X-Git-Url: https://git.proxmox.com/?p=mirror_edk2.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=c3117889c48ded5aed87e72d15ae8e77fd7fdb1b;hp=4777d7fc9eb5925845654492d40fa433a931f454 Add change log for the incompatible changes in MdePkg in Edk r9817. git-svn-id: https://edk2.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/edk2/trunk/edk2@9818 6f19259b-4bc3-4df7-8a09-765794883524 --- diff --git a/MdePkg/ChangeLog.txt b/MdePkg/ChangeLog.txt index 38f056ca41..ab276e8973 100644 --- a/MdePkg/ChangeLog.txt +++ b/MdePkg/ChangeLog.txt @@ -326,3 +326,12 @@ Possible impacts: This is a source level compatible change, but not binary level. We might need to rebuild some old binary modules to work with newer version of MdePkg. +EDK_9815: Non-Compatible: qhuang8 + Scrub EFI_ATA_IDENTIFY_DATA and EFI_ATAPI_IDENTIFY_DATA to strict follow newest ATA spec (ATA-8). This is a build non-backward compatible changes for ATA-related modules. + The ATA5_IDENTIFY_DATA in MdePkg\IndustryStandards\Atapi.h is exactly the same as the original ATA_IDENTIFY_DATA for backward compatibility support to follow ATA-5 spec. + +Possible impacts: + We can fix the build breaks for some renaming issues (e.g. Word 49 in EFI_ATA_IDENTIFY_DATA renamed from "capabilities" to "capabilities_49") + For the fields that are "obsolete" in newest ATA spec, we can use type-cast to older ATA spec structure (e.g. ATA5_IDENTIFY_DATA). + (There should not be any runtime issues if the build issues have got solved in the source correctly.) +