Installconfigurationtable() – Intel Extensible Firmware Interface User Manual

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Extensible Firmware Interface Specification

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12/01/02

Version 1.10

InstallConfigurationTable()

Summary

Adds, updates, or removes a configuration table entry from the EFI System Table.

Prototype

EFI_STATUS
InstallConfigurationTable (

IN EFI_GUID

*Guid,

IN VOID

*Table

);

Parameters

Guid

A pointer to the GUID for the entry to add, update, or remove.

Table

A pointer to the configuration table for the entry to add, update, or
remove. May be

NULL

.

Description

The

InstallConfigurationTable()

function is used to maintain the list of configuration

tables that are stored in the EFI System Table. The list is stored as an array of (GUID, Pointer)
pairs. The list must be allocated from pool memory with

PoolType

set to

EfiRuntimeServicesData

.

If

Guid

is not a valid GUID,

EFI_INVALID_PARAMETER

is returned. If

Guid

is valid, there

are four possibilities:
• If

Guid

is not present in the System Table, and

Table

is not

NULL

, then the (

Guid

,

Table

)

pair is added to the System Table. See Note below.

• If

Guid

is not present in the System Table, and

Table

is

NULL

, then

EFI_NOT_FOUND

is returned.

• If

Guid

is present in the System Table, and

Table

is not

NULL

, then the (

Guid

,

Table

) pair

is updated with the new

Table

value.

• If

Guid

is present in the System Table, and

Table

is

NULL

, then the entry associated with

Guid

is removed from the System Table.

If an add, modify, or remove operation is completed, then

EFI_SUCCESS

is returned.

NOTE

If there is not enough memory to perform an add operation, then

EFI_OUT_OF_RESOURCES

is

returned.

Status Codes Returned

EFI_SUCCESS

The (

Guid

,

Table

) pair was added, updated, or removed.

EFI_INVALID_PARAMETER

Guid

is not valid.

EFI_NOT_FOUND

An attempt was made to delete a nonexistent entry.

EFI_OUT_OF_RESOURCES

There is not enough memory available to complete the operation.

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