Re:Red Hat and CentOS systems aren’t booting due to BootHole...
by cesarb on Saturday August 01, 2020 @11:13AM
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> install it into BIOS and then talk to it via standard interface
Isn't that how it's worked since forever? The graphics card already comes with a driver in a flash ROM chip, the BIOS installs it during boot, and programs can talk to it through the standard INT 10h interface. AFAIK, modern graphics cards also already come with an EFI driver in the same flash ROM chip, which the BIOS installs during boot when in EFI mode, and EFI programs and operating systems can talk to it through standard EFI interfaces.
Isn't that how it's worked since forever? The graphics card already comes with a driver in a flash ROM chip, the BIOS installs it during boot, and programs can talk to it through the standard INT 10h interface. AFAIK, modern graphics cards also already come with an EFI driver in the same flash ROM chip, which the BIOS installs during boot when in EFI mode, and EFI programs and operating systems can talk to it through standard EFI interfaces.