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+/** @file
+  Platform hook library. Platform can provide an implementation of this
+  library class to provide hooks that may be required for some type of 
+  platform initialization.
+
+Copyright (c) 2010, Intel Corporation. All rights reserved.<BR>
+This program and the accompanying materials are licensed and made available under 
+the terms and conditions of the BSD License that accompanies this distribution.  
+The full text of the license may be found at
+http://opensource.org/licenses/bsd-license.php.                                            
+
+THE PROGRAM IS DISTRIBUTED UNDER THE BSD LICENSE ON AN "AS IS" BASIS,                     
+WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR REPRESENTATIONS OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED.
+
+**/
+
+#ifndef __PLATFORM_HOOK_LIB__
+#define __PLATFORM_HOOK_LIB__
+
+/**
+  Performs platform specific initialization required for the CPU to access
+  the hardware associated with a SerialPortLib instance.  This function does
+  not intiailzie the serial port hardware itself.  Instead, it initializes 
+  hardware devices that are required for the CPU to access the serial port 
+  hardware.  This function may be called more than once.
+
+  @retval RETURN_SUCCESS       The platform specific initialization succeeded.
+  @retval RETURN_DEVICE_ERROR  The platform specific initialization could not be completed.
+ 
+**/
+RETURN_STATUS
+EFIAPI
+PlatformHookSerialPortInitialize (
+  VOID
+  );
+
+#endif // __PLATFORM_HOOK_LIB__
+