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		kragen 3 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ilo – a Forth system running on UEFI Oh, I didn't know UEFI text mode didn't use VGA text mode! That could be an important consideration. But I suppose you can still frob the VGA registers to set VGA text mode, right? Even if you boot under UEFI?

coolcoder613 3 months ago [–]

While that way work on some hardware, on a lot of hardware it won't.

see https://old.reddit.com/r/osdev/comments/yjm04z/vga_on_uefi/i...

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