On 01/22/13 14:46, David Woodhouse wrote: > On Tue, 2013-01-22 at 09:51 +0100, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: >> >>> And we only invoke the iPXE ROM on the network card *after* the user has >>> seen the boot menu (without that option), so the user never gets to >>> choose that. >> >> You can build ipxe efi roms and use those, then netboot will show up in >> the efi boot menu (although I didn't got that actually work). > > If OVMF doesn't have a native driver for the device, and it has a legacy > option ROM, surely OVMF should initialise that ROM *before* showing its > own bootmenu?
Yea, probably. As I understand things this is one of the cases where heavy interaction between EFI + CSM happens as it is the CSM's job to handle legacy roms and provide methods for EFI to use it. I'd try to get around implementing that if possible. > It's also possible to make dual-mode option ROMs, isn't it, that have > support for both legacy BIOS *and* EFI? That would be alot better. Not sure it is possible though. cheers, Gerd ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
