Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2019 10:48:23 -0600 From: Rebecca Cran <rebecca@bluestop.org> To: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd-rwg@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> Cc: D Scott Phillips <d.scott.phillips@intel.com>, freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Updating uefi-edk2-bhyve Message-ID: <08bc0aa2-1516-ba57-ed7f-47d861fd8edc@bluestop.org> In-Reply-To: <201903300708.x2U78Xbk003528@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> References: <201903300708.x2U78Xbk003528@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>
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On 3/30/19 1:08 AM, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > > I do not know what the above is, could you elaborate for me? > What is OVMF and what is its relation to bhyve? OVMF is the Open Virtual Machine Firmware: it's open source (BSD licensed) firmware for virtual machines. Currently, that means Qemu/KVM. It has been ported to run under Bhyve too. > > I have to assume this is with ed2k loaded, but I do not > know you are showing me the SMBIOS string value or some > other bios version value. THere are compliance levels > associated with SMBIOS. I guess you mean edk2 (efi development kit 2), not ed2k? I'm showing you the SMBIOS values for the BIOS section. Another example: on my desktop system, 'dmidecode' shows: root@photon:/usr/home/bcran # dmidecode -t bios # dmidecode 3.2 # SMBIOS entry point at 0x7949f000 Found SMBIOS entry point in EFI, reading table from /dev/mem. SMBIOS 3.0 present. Handle 0x0000, DMI type 0, 24 bytes BIOS Information Vendor: American Megatrends Inc. Version: 1701 Release Date: 01/09/2019 Address: 0xF0000 Runtime Size: 64 kB ROM Size: 16 MB Characteristics: PCI is supported APM is supported BIOS is upgradeable BIOS shadowing is allowed Boot from CD is supported Selectable boot is supported BIOS ROM is socketed EDD is supported 5.25"/1.2 MB floppy services are supported (int 13h) 3.5"/720 kB floppy services are supported (int 13h) 3.5"/2.88 MB floppy services are supported (int 13h) Print screen service is supported (int 5h) 8042 keyboard services are supported (int 9h) Serial services are supported (int 14h) Printer services are supported (int 17h) ACPI is supported USB legacy is supported BIOS boot specification is supported Targeted content distribution is supported UEFI is supported BIOS Revision: 5.13 -- Rebecca Cran
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