Maybe SMBIOS tables. 

https://svn.code.sf.net/p/edk2/code/trunk/edk2/MdePkg/Include/IndustryStandard/SmBios.h
UefiSpecificationSupported in in the BIOS characteristics extension byte 2 of 
the BIOS Characteristics (type 0) record. 

There is an SMBIOS dumper in the shell

Thanks,

Andrew Fish


On Sep 3, 2013, at 3:42 AM, joeyli <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi experts, 
> 
> I am trying to identify legacy mode of UEFI BIOS between pure legacy
> BIOS on OS.
> 
> Simply say:
> Does it possible to identify this machine is running UEFI BIOS when user
> switch to legacy mode?
> 
> My original idea is through some ACPI tables, e.g. UEFI, FPDT and BGRT,
> one of them show up then I think this machine has UEFI BIOS.
> 
> But, I found there have some machines don't expose those tables when
> switched to legacy mode. It hard to distinguish legacy mode of UEFI and
> pure legacy BIOS.
> 
> Does there have any standard method or reliable way to identify legacy
> mode? Appreciate for any idea!
> 
> 
> Thanks a lot!
> Joey Lee
> 
> 
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