| Enabling CONFIG_CSM allows SeaBIOS to be built as a Compatibility Support |
| Module for use with the OMVF/EDK-II UEFI firmware. |
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| It will provide "legacy" BIOS services for booting non-EFI operating |
| systems and will also allow OVMF to display on otherwise unsupported |
| video hardware by using the traditional VGA BIOS. |
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| Windows 2008r2 is known to use INT 10h BIOS calls even when booted via |
| EFI, and the presence of a CSM makes this work as expected too. |
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| Having built SeaBIOS with CONFIG_CSM, you should be able to drop the |
| result (out/Csm16.bin) into your OVMF build tree at |
| OvmfPkg/Csm/Csm16/Csm16.bin and then build OVMF with 'build -D |
| CSM_ENABLE'. The SeaBIOS binary will be included as a discrete file |
| within the 'Flash Volume' which is created, and there are tools which |
| will extract it and allow it to be replaced; satisfying the |
| requirements of the LGPL licence. |
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| A patch to OVMF is required, to prevent it from marking the region from |
| 0xC0000-0xFFFFF as read-only before invoking our Legacy16Boot method. See |
| http://www.sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=50FD7290.9060003%40redhat.com&forum_name=edk2-devel |
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