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Date:      Tue, 23 Oct 2018 00:26:56 +0700
From:      Victor Sudakov <vas@mpeks.tomsk.su>
To:        "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd-rwg@pdx.rh.cn85.dnsmgr.net>
Cc:        Jason Barbier <kusuriya@serversave.us>, freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: bhyve uefi="csm"
Message-ID:  <20181022172656.GA31184@admin.sibptus.ru>
In-Reply-To: <201810221714.w9MHE83d011516@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net>
References:  <20181021162742.GA10064@admin.sibptus.ru> <201810221714.w9MHE83d011516@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net>

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Rodney W. Grimes wrote:
>> Rodney W. Grimes wrote:
>> > > Can you tell us a bit about your set up, like are you using helper scripts like libvirt?
>> > > To answer the question you asked when I run a vm with the CSM firmware it works for me.
>> >
>> > You should always be able to boot a vm that uses
>> > and boots with the non CSM uefi firmware with the
>> > CSM version of the firmware, failures may start
>> > to show up if your booting something that is
>> > either purely legacy, or efi aware but falls
>> > back to csm because it didnt like something.
>>
>> If my goal were to boot FreeDOS in bhyve, would that be ever possible?
>
>Today no, due to the fact we do not have a ATA/legacy
>emulation, but rather only ahci disk emultaion, though
>I would be wrong on that point if FreeDOS has an ahci
>disk driver.

According to http://wiki.freedos.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page#What_makes_FreeDOS_better.3F 
FreeDOS has "UDMA drivers for hard disks and DVD drives", is it not the thing? 

-- 
Victor Sudakov,  VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN
2:5005/49@fidonet http://vas.tomsk.ru/



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