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From: | Anthony Liguori |
Subject: | Re: [Qemu-devel] Release plan for 0.12.0 |
Date: | Thu, 01 Oct 2009 16:23:06 -0500 |
User-agent: | Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (X11/20090825) |
Jordan Justen wrote:
On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 05:45, Anthony Liguori <address@hidden> wrote:Natalia Portillo wrote:for target-i386 and target-x86_64: o EFI firmware emulation (as a machine or command line option) o OS/2 1.x supportAFAIK, no one is actually working on these. EFI is also not terribly useful without a CSM and I suspect porting SeaBIOS to tiano core is going to be a big effort.Several Linux distributions are getting UEFI support ironed out now, so UEFI can be used without a CSM. QEMU support for UEFI could help the Linux distributions to enable UEFI support...
I see a CSM as a pre-requisite for merging a uefi rom. A user can already use a uefi rom by simply using the -bios parameter so there's nothing inhibiting testing. My concern about introducing a new machine type is that it would require duplicate testing and force the selection of uefi up through the management tool stack.
OTH, uefi + a CSM based on SeaBIOS could be used as the default firmware. I don't think it's a reasonable target for 0.12 but I think if someone actively worked on it, it would be possible for future releases.
Regards, Anthony Liguori
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