[SeaBIOS] SeaBIOS as EFI application
Peter Stuge
peter at stuge.se
Wed Nov 7 15:15:30 CET 2012
Thorsten Glaser wrote:
> > Thanks for voluntering to do it. ;)
>
> I’m writing bootloaders for BIOS, not for EFI¹.
> Which is why I’m asking in the first place
Noone else is working on it. Significant contributions to SeaBIOS
come from the virtualization community, where EFI is not very
pervasive.
> > Key word (well, acronym): CSM
>
> That one’s not in my² list… which one?
http://www.google.com/search?q=efi+csm
first hit
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Extensible_Firmware_Interface
mentions "In 2008, more x86-64 systems have adopted UEFI. While many
of these systems still allow booting only the BIOS-based OSes via the
Compatibility Support Module (CSM) (thus does not appear to the user
that the system is UEFI-based)"
//Peter
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