I'd say whichever is easier.  What guests are in each camp?

  Nate

On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 10:50 AM,  <[email protected]> wrote:
> I don't plan on doing any work on this in the near future, but what are 
> people's
> opinions about implementing an EFI BIOS for m5 rather than a traditional 
> BIOS? I
> think EFI would be easier to implement and work with and easier to get
> documentation and support tools for, but a traditional BIOS would potentially
> be compatible with more guests. EFI supports a compatibility layer, but at 
> that
> point we'd be approximating implementing both, I think. That may be ok 
> because I
> think most BIOS services are ignored by most modern guests, with the fairly
> minor exception of a boot loader.
>
> Gabe
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