Re: [Qemu-devel] OVMF Google Summer of Code ideas

[Natalia Portillo]

Hi all,

This may come late in the discussion, but, has OVMF been tested with Mac OS X?

A decent Intel Macintosh emulation requires of course EFI + HFS.

Regards,
Natalia Portillo

El 09/03/2011, a las 05:34, Jordan Justen escribió:

> On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 18:23, Kevin O'Connor <address@hidden> wrote:
>> On Tue, Mar 08, 2011 at 09:00:05AM -0800, Jordan Justen wrote:
>>> Yes, the UEFI system is still in place.  The UEFI part still handles
>>> the majority of platform init, and calls into the CSM at various
>>> points.  The CSM returns back to UEFI for all CSM calls, except the
>>> legacy boot.
>> 
>> Is there a concise list of these various callbacks between UEFI and
>> CSM?
>> 
>> If SeaBIOS just needs to be loaded up for legacy boots, that doesn't
>> sound too difficult.  However, if SeaBIOS would need to translate
>> various BIOS calls into UEFI calls - that sounds like it could be
>> complex.
> 
> A CSM does not really know about UEFI for the most part.  Rather it
> carries out some tasks when request by the UEFI environment.  The UEFI
> side still manages the high level boot flow (even for legacy boots).
> The CSM does not call into UEFI services, but just returns back to
> whoever invoked the CSM call.
> 
> The 16-bit CSM component interface is described in this file:
> https://edk2.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/edk2/trunk/edk2/IntelFrameworkPkg/Include/Protocol/LegacyBios.h
> 
> The full CSM specification document is available here:
> http://www.intel.com/technology/framework/spec.htm
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -Jordan
>