From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MaZzT-0005M2-Ta for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 10 Aug 2009 14:53:03 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MaZzP-0005Iw-9W for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 10 Aug 2009 14:53:03 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=60281 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MaZzP-0005IQ-4L for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 10 Aug 2009 14:52:59 -0400 Received: from mail-qy0-f174.google.com ([209.85.221.174]:59991) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MaZzN-0005nz-Ih for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 10 Aug 2009 14:52:57 -0400 Received: by qyk4 with SMTP id 4so2673879qyk.4 for ; Mon, 10 Aug 2009 11:52:57 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4A806C86.6030504@codemonkey.ws> Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 13:52:54 -0500 From: Anthony Liguori MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] pc.c: Add UEFI IA32 & X64 machine types. References: <1249782222-6724-1-git-send-email-jljusten@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <1249782222-6724-1-git-send-email-jljusten@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Jordan Justen Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org Jordan Justen wrote: > For i386, this change adds a 'uefi' machine type. For x86_64, this > change adds 'uefi' and 'uefi32' machine types. > Why are uefi32 machines explicitly needed? How does one build the uefi roms? Is uefi all that useful in the absence of a CSM? Wouldn't it make more sense to add a CSM to uefi and then switch the default pc to use uefi? > These machine types will load different bios and video bios images: > Regards, Anthony Liguori