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				UEFI EDK2 firmware for bhyve with CSM (16-bit BIOS) support.
				woodsb02Unsubmitted Done Inline Actions Could we please add another couple of lines of description, explaining when you would use this? Perhaps explain the heritage of this firmware, and what UEFI, EDK2 and CSM mean, and why you would use this over other options. woodsb02: Could we please add another couple of lines of description, explaining when you would use this?

				From https://github.com/tianocore/tianocore/wiki/UEFI :
				"The Unified Extensible Firmware Interface, or UEFI, specifies the
				firmware layer between an operating system and platform hardware. UEFI
				replaces the legacy Basic Input Output System (BIOS)."

				EDK2 is the project from TianoCore (https://tianocore.org) that provides
				"a modern, feature-rich, cross-platform development environment for the
				UEFI and UEFI Platform Initialization (PI) specifications."

				It's open source under the BSD-2-Clause-Patent license.

				This port provides an EDK2 firmware build for x86_64 with 'CSM' support.
				CSM is the Compatibility Support Module, compatibility code to allow
				operating systems which expect a 16-bit BIOS, and which don't know
				about UEFI, to boot.

				This CSM port provides an older version of EDK2 for use with VMs
				running operating systems which don't have UEFI support.

				WWW: https://github.com/freebsd/uefi-edk2/tree/bhyve/UDK2014.SP1