Hi all, This may come late in the discussion, but, has OVMF been tested with Mac OS X?
A decent Intel Macintosh emulation requires of course EFI + HFS. Regards, Natalia Portillo El 09/03/2011, a las 05:34, Jordan Justen escribió: > On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 18:23, Kevin O'Connor <ke...@koconnor.net> wrote: >> On Tue, Mar 08, 2011 at 09:00:05AM -0800, Jordan Justen wrote: >>> Yes, the UEFI system is still in place. The UEFI part still handles >>> the majority of platform init, and calls into the CSM at various >>> points. The CSM returns back to UEFI for all CSM calls, except the >>> legacy boot. >> >> Is there a concise list of these various callbacks between UEFI and >> CSM? >> >> If SeaBIOS just needs to be loaded up for legacy boots, that doesn't >> sound too difficult. However, if SeaBIOS would need to translate >> various BIOS calls into UEFI calls - that sounds like it could be >> complex. > > A CSM does not really know about UEFI for the most part. Rather it > carries out some tasks when request by the UEFI environment. The UEFI > side still manages the high level boot flow (even for legacy boots). > The CSM does not call into UEFI services, but just returns back to > whoever invoked the CSM call. > > The 16-bit CSM component interface is described in this file: > https://edk2.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/edk2/trunk/edk2/IntelFrameworkPkg/Include/Protocol/LegacyBios.h > > The full CSM specification document is available here: > http://www.intel.com/technology/framework/spec.htm > > Thanks, > > -Jordan >
