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Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH] Replace bios_relocate hook with bios_load ho
| To: | Tim Deegan <Tim.Deegan@xxxxxxxxxx> |
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| Subject: | Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH] Replace bios_relocate hook with bios_load hook in hvmloader |
| From: | Keir Fraser <keir.xen@xxxxxxxxx> |
| Date: | Wed, 27 Jul 2011 09:35:22 +0100 |
| Cc: | Xen Devel <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Jordan Justen <jljusten@xxxxxxxxx>, Bei Guan <gbtju85@xxxxxxxxx>, Andrei Warkentin <andreiw@xxxxxxxxxxxx> |
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On 27/07/2011 09:09, "Tim Deegan" <Tim.Deegan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > At 08:34 +0100 on 27 Jul (1311755670), Keir Fraser wrote: >> By the way, what are the advantages for us of supporting OVMF? I know it >> gets us the UEFI support tickybox, but for me that begs the same question. >> Why is it useful? > > When Windows boots from UEFI it can load just its system-disk driver via > the firmware and the rest of the OS using its own driver; that ought to > make Windows boot times much faster. That's interesting. Why can't it do that with legacy firmware? Does it need to keep the legacy BIOS alive for a while and hence can't use its own drivers, or something like that? -- Keir > I'm told that an EFI framebuffer > could make PV graphics easier too, but I don't know anything about > Windows graphics drivers. > > Also, eventually some server SKUs may go EFI-only, or we may need EFI > for system logo tests, but that seems unlikely to happen soon. > > Tim. _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel |
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