[ipxe-devel] Figuring out if system is (U)EFI or not

James A. Peltier jpeltier at sfu.ca
Sun Apr 7 02:38:42 UTC 2013


----- Original Message -----
| On 05/04/13 21:34, James A. Peltier wrote:
| > I've looked through the documentation but I can't seem to find out
| > if there is a way to determine if the system is (U)EFI or not in a
| > way similar to getting the cpuid value.  Is there such a thing?
| >  If so how would I go about accomplishing this?  Pointing me to
| > docs is fine.
| 
| How about some freshly minted code:
| 
|    http://git.ipxe.org/ipxe.git/commitdiff/0e2ba15
| 
| and the accompanying docs:
| 
|    http://ipxe.org/cfg/platform
| 
| (I've been meaning to do this for a while; thanks for reminding me.)
| 
| Michael

Thanks Michael!  I'll try this on Monday morning ;)

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