On 01/22/13 18:10, Andrew Fish wrote: >> Does this mean the VGA BIOS / int 0x10 are available even to a UEFI OS >> being booted directly from a UEFI boot option? >> > > NO!
I fully agree that we should make no such promise (I vaguely recall one spec or another explicitly warning about this, ie. CSM being optional), and with that an OS should not try to depend on it... >> If so, perhaps Jeff might want to retry installing windows 2008 R2sp1 on >> OVMF (= a build that includes the SeaBIOS CSM). For some reason even the >> UEFI installation of win2k8r2 depends on the VGA BIOS. >> > > There are some bugs in Windows, prior to Win8 in needing to fall back to INT > 0x10 in some end cases. ... but, exactly what you said. I only asked the question wrt. win2k8r2 bug compatibility. Thanks! Laszlo ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Master Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL, ASP.NET, C# 2012, HTML5, CSS, MVC, Windows 8 Apps, JavaScript and much more. Keep your skills current with LearnDevNow - 3,200 step-by-step video tutorials by Microsoft MVPs and experts. ON SALE this month only -- learn more at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/learnnow-d2d _______________________________________________ edk2-devel mailing list edk2-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/edk2-devel
