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Re: [Xen-devel] EFI-BIOS on IA32

To: Kuniyasu Suzaki <k.suzaki@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] EFI-BIOS on IA32
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Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2007 10:29:59 +0100
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Quoting Kuniyasu Suzaki <k.suzaki@xxxxxxxxxx>:

>
> Hello,
>
> Is there anyone to try EFI-BIOS on IA32 Xen HVM?

AFAIK, no.  Always we use EFI on Xen/ia64.

Porting to Xen/ia32 shouldn't be very hard, but I can't see the immediate
benefit over qemu.

> EFI-BIOS/IA32 which is shipped from Xen's EFI-BIOS/IA64 is effective on
> QEMU/IA32 but the network driver is not available.

EFI only support eepro100 iirc.

Tristan.

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