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From: Mats Petersson <mats.petersson@citrix.com>
Subject: Re: Update Seabios on xen-unstable
Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2013 14:35:04 +0000
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On 11/01/13 14:26, Fabio Fantoni wrote:
> Il 11/01/2013 14:12, Ian Campbell ha scritto:
>> On Fri, 2013-01-11 at 12:37 +0000, Ross Philipson wrote:
>>> Yes it is for SMBIOS and ACPI right now. I could enhance it to
>>> load other things but as noted below, I though SeaBIOS could
>>> load OROMs specified by the devices.
>> It can and does, we should not use the interface you have added for
>> loading BIOS ROMs IMHO.
>>
>> Ian.
>>
>>
>>
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> Thanks for the replies.
> I know that isn't optimal use firmware passtrought for vgabioses but I'm
> not sure that seabios actually loads (automatically) the vgabioses.
> Please point me in right direction if i'm wrong.
>
What OS are you actually trying to use, and on what hardware? Most 
drivers, for most hardware, these days are perfectly capable of running 
without the VGA BIOS. It's possible that some don't, but I'm not sure 
which that would be. Just asking, so that I understand, more than 
anything else.

--
Mats