[Discussion] Feasibility of implementing UEFI support.

[bomkz]

A quick look at the limitations section of the README.md, it seems that UEFI devices are not supported. That seems to be the biggest caveat of this project, the other limitations not being dealbreakers.

However, I think it's of importance to support such devices given the large majority of modern computers are running on UEFI mode, and often have BIOS compatibility disabled.

I am not quite sure what makes this tick or not, however I am opening this issue to ask whether adding UEFI support would be possible if at all.

I know UEFI is quite tricky to deal with, and this project just seems to be starting, especially with things that mess with the system like this, but I'm wondering whether it would be possible at all to allow UEFI support for this project.

[NSG650]

Currently the driver makes use of bootvid.dll which is a vga boot driver this being limited to only BIOS systems. It would be possible to make use of the newer Bg* functions provided by NT to draw or we could get the raw framebuffer itself. However writing to mmio addresses causes it to crash. I might have to look into but I will try my best.

[bomkz]

Currently the driver makes use of bootvid.dll which is a vga boot driver this being limited to only BIOS systems. It would be possible to make use of the newer Bg* functions provided by NT to draw or we could get the raw framebuffer itself. However writing to mmio addresses causes it to crash. I might have to look into but I will try my best.

The effort is appreciated. I am hoping to see a future release with UEFI support, as this could massively increase the potential userbase.