Oh neat. Looks like TianoCore may actually be able to boot the nvme drives directly.
@mos_8502 This is exciting news in my hopes to upgrade my old computer and VM o:
@elfi What sort of box is it?
@mos_8502 Presently an old i7-4790k running Linux off a mix of silicon and spinning rust over SATA, maxed out on RAM, but running a Windows VM using TianoCore's OVMF and a GTX1070 passthrough. Memory bottlenecking is an issue especially with the IGP, so I hope to change that
Fortunately a A friend of mine was offering to ship me his old Ryzen board, which might let me actually use two graphics cards on separate IOMMU blocks, and in the meantime I ended up with some decommissioned Lenovo workstations with beefy procs, 1TB NVMes and a Quadro from this year, so I have options to say the least
@mos_8502 Here's hoping it works for you then! My VM can at least use a block device if I can't pass the NVMe through directly
@elfi This board, a Gigabyte GA-B75M-D3H, doesn't have NVMe support baked in, so the two 500GB SSDs are on PCIe adapters. I'm hoping That TianoCore can find a /boot/eif partition on one of them, obviating the need for the SATA SSD, so I can use it elsewhere, maybe in my PS2.