diff --git a/MdeModulePkg/Universal/PCD/Dxe/Pcd.inf b/MdeModulePkg/Universal/PCD/Dxe/Pcd.inf index 0b0486737e..5e5bacbcfc 100644 --- a/MdeModulePkg/Universal/PCD/Dxe/Pcd.inf +++ b/MdeModulePkg/Universal/PCD/Dxe/Pcd.inf @@ -1,6 +1,17 @@ #/** @file # PCD DXE driver manage database contains all dynamic PCD entries initialized in # PEI phase, DXE phase and produce the implementation of PCD protocol. +# +# There are two PCD Protocols as follows: +# 1) PCD_PROTOCOL +# It is EDKII implementation which support Dynamic/DynamicEx type Pcds. +# 2) EFI_PCD_PROTOCOL_PPI +# It is defined by PI specification 1.2, Vol 3 which only support dynamicEx +# type Pcd. +# +# For dynamicEx type PCD, it is compatible between PCD_PPI and EFI_PEI_PCD_PPI. +# PCD DXE driver will produce above two protocols at same time. +# # PCD database structure is generated at autogen.h/autogen.c in build time. # # //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// diff --git a/MdeModulePkg/Universal/PCD/Pei/Pcd.inf b/MdeModulePkg/Universal/PCD/Pei/Pcd.inf index 075e16aeb4..fc39290911 100644 --- a/MdeModulePkg/Universal/PCD/Pei/Pcd.inf +++ b/MdeModulePkg/Universal/PCD/Pei/Pcd.inf @@ -1,6 +1,14 @@ #/** @file # PCD PEIM produces PCD database to manage all dynamic PCD in PEI phase and install Pcd Ppi service. # +# There are two PCD PPIs as follows: +# 1) PCD_PPI +# It is EDKII implementation which support Dynamic/DynamicEx Pcds. +# 2) EFI_PEI_PCD_PPI +# It is defined by PI specification 1.2, Vol 3 which only support dynamicEx +# type Pcd. +# For dynamicEx type PCD, it is compatible between PCD_PPI and EFI_PEI_PCD_PPI. +# # //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// # // // # // Introduction of PCD database //