On Tue, Mar 01, 2022 at 08:18:17AM +0100, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:

This is an attept to start cleaning up the messy compiler intrinsics
situation. Today we don't have a core intrinsics library, resulting
in everybody creating their own. ArmPkg has one, CryptoPkg has one.
I'm sure there are many more.

This doesn't make sense. Given we can't avoid compiler intrinsics (as
proven by the existence of those libraries) we should better have them
as core library so we have to maintain a single version only.

Given we already have BaseIoLibIntrinsic in MdePkg we can place the
compiler intrinsics there too. This little patch series does just that:
It moves over the existing ArmPkg intrinsics, fixes them to build on
non-arm too, and adds additional bits from the CryptoPkg intrinsics.

Ping. How go forward with this? I've posted it as RFC because
I expected a more controversial discussion. But seems everybody
agrees this is a step into the right direction.

So just merge this as-is?

Yes, it passed CI (https://github.com/tianocore/edk2/pull/2542).

take care,
Gerd