Re: F37 Change: Deprecate Legacy BIOS (System-Wide Change proposal)

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On Wed, Apr 06, 2022 at 12:38:40PM +0000, Gary Buhrmaster wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 6, 2022 at 12:15 PM Josh Boyer <jwboyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > I agree 100%.  I think this is actually getting to the crux of the
> > issue, which is that while we have a lot of people that want BIOS
> > support to continue, we effectively have nobody that wants to do the
> > work to make it happen.
> 
> In a previous thread about bios support, there
> was a discussion about (a mythical) someone
> resurrecting DUET to provide a transition path.
> 
> To the best of my knowledge, no one stepped
> up to do that work[0].
> 
> Gary
> 
> 
> [0] Quite honestly, given that DUET was removed
> upstream, I would have thought looking instead
> at Clover (which is still supported) would be a
> better option, but better only in some theoretical
> sense, as there was no one to do that work
> either.

I was wondering about whether this was possible (booting UEFI from
BIOS) too.  For reference, DUET is described here:

https://rodsbooks.com/bios2uefi/

Clover is described here:

https://github.com/CloverHackyColor/CloverBootloader

Rich.

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