Re: [SeaBIOS] SeaBIOS as EFI application

[Thorsten Glaser]

Kevin O'Connor dixit:
> Unfortunately, the UEFI spec is amazingly complicated.  Really really
> complicated.  It makes the ACPI spec seem simple.  So, when I looked

OUCH!
> 1 - Using SeaBIOS as a CSM.  The CSM spec is amazingly complex as
> 2 - Implementing in SeaBIOS a subset of the EFI OS interface so that

Both aren’t really what I want.
> To be clear though, neither of the above paths would enable you to
> boot something like DOS on an existing UEFI system.  It may be

Yeah. I was more thinking of having SeaBIOS be an EFI “OS”,
just like the MirBSD bootloader is a Multiboot compliant “OS
kernel”, and then take over the system and load the real OS,
providing BIOS calls to it.

bye,
//mirabilos