This is one of the last things we (IP-Projects) need ... for now.
Our end goal with this protocol is to be able to read the collection of available BIOS settings (+ their values), which requires to fully parse the hiidb datastructure.

Though I'm somewhat at a loss as to how to continue with this.
I think parsing hiidb without the help of some library is abig no-no, sincethis is what it looks likewith a helping library.

Would it be acceptable to add a new dependency on something likebinrw to add this to uefi-rs, or do you regard hiidb parsing as out-of-scope for uefi-rs alltogether?

Would it be acceptable to add a new dependency on something likebinrw to add this to uefi-rs, or do you regard hiidb parsing as out-of-scope for uefi-rs alltogether?

Not sure, we haven't done this so far. I have a light tendency towardsno. In the documentation of the corresponding "high level" abstraction inuefi (pub struct HiiDatabase(HiiDatabaseProtocol);, you could add some more context for higher-level usages?