[vfio-users] vga pass-thru and different gfx cards.

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On radeon cards you can decompress the efi device driver from some rom and
glue it to non-uefi one using efirom.
Sadly, i still haven't found a neat way of decompressing.
On Sep 11, 2015 9:18 PM, "Marcel Bieberbach" <mauorrizze at gmail.com> wrote:

> 2015-09-10 19:47 GMT+02:00 Alex Williamson <alex.l.williamson at gmail.com>:
>>
>> Hmm, none of the Asus GT 610 ROMs on techpowerup have UEFI support either
>> and it doesn't look promising from the other vendors.  I was going to
>> recommend the GT 635 as a cheap OEM card that has good UEFI support, but
>> they no longer seem to be available on ebay.  That's really lame that the
>> asus card requires an asus mb, but even more lame that it still doesn't
>> include UEFI.
>>
>>
> I'd just like to throw in that I'm regularly booting a non-UEFI card with
> it's default BIOS firmware into a Windows 8.1/10 OVMF based VM. Luckily I
> found compatible UEFI roms for my AMD 280X from other vendors and I've used
> them during the installation, but as I ran into occasional
> frequency-switching problems, I've ditched them. Of course having the
> opportunity to define the rom for some boots is great, because booting with
> the non-UEFI, stock rom does not only mean booting with a black screen
> until the Windows login prompt appears, it also means you miss blue screens
> (during Windows 10 upgrade...) and I suppose most parts of an installation.
> But if you can work around that by using the virtual QXL display during
> these situations, it may be worth a try.
>
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