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BOSH Ubuntu Linux stemcells
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Add EFI support for vsphere stemcell #348

Closed lnguyen closed 6 months ago

lnguyen commented 6 months ago

This is for vSphere stemcells can to access > 16 GiB GPUs

Booting from an EFI partition is necessary to access and utilize GPUs with more than 16 GB of memory because UEFI provides the advanced memory addressing, compatibility, and initialization capabilities required for such hardware. The older BIOS/MBR system cannot efficiently handle the requirements of modern high-capacity GPUs.

cunnie commented 6 months ago

I love this commit, but could you please modify the message (which does a great job of explaining what you did, but glosses over why you did it):

vSphere stemcells can access > 16 GiB GPUs

booting from an EFI partition is necessary to access and utilize GPUs with more than 16 GB of memory because UEFI provides the advanced memory addressing, compatibility, and initialization capabilities required for such hardware. The older BIOS/MBR system cannot efficiently handle the requirements of modern high-capacity GPUs.