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    <title>topic Re: Bug in UEFI firmware in VMware Workstation Pro Discussions</title>
    <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-Workstation-Pro/Bug-in-UEFI-firmware/m-p/2730166#M164715</link>
    <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;No worries! Thank you for the great product.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;It isn't a blocking issue for me seeing as I was only using it for debugging purposes, but I appreciate it being fixed &lt;img id="smileyhappy" class="emoticon emoticon-smileyhappy" src="https://communities.vmware.com/i/smilies/16x16_smiley-happy.png" alt="Smiley Happy" title="Smiley Happy" /&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2018 11:22:28 GMT</pubDate>
    <dc:creator>Wazner</dc:creator>
    <dc:date>2018-05-07T11:22:28Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Bug in UEFI firmware</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-Workstation-Pro/Bug-in-UEFI-firmware/m-p/2730164#M164713</link>
      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;I'm using VMWare Workstation for testing a hobby OS. For debugging purposes my bootloader will print out the device path of the pointer device.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;To get the pointer device i'm using the EFI_SIMPLE_POINTER_PROTOCOL protocol and to get the device path I'm using the EFI_DEVICE_PATH_PROTOCOL protocol.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;The UEFI specification states that device handles implementing the EFI_SIMPLE_POINTER_PROTOCOL protocol, must also implement the EFI_DEVICE_PATH_PROTOCOL protocol. (EFI 2.3.1: section 11.6 EFI Simple Pointer Device Paths, or EFI 2.7: section 12.6).&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;The above is not the case with the VMWare UEFI firmware.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;When I call HandleProtocol(EFI_DEVICE_PATH_PROTOCOL) on the device implementing SIMPLE_POINTER_PROTOCOL (found using LocateHandle) it returns EFI_UNSUPPORTED.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 29 Apr 2018 13:33:40 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-Workstation-Pro/Bug-in-UEFI-firmware/m-p/2730164#M164713</guid>
      <dc:creator>Wazner</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2018-04-29T13:33:40Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Bug in UEFI firmware</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-Workstation-Pro/Bug-in-UEFI-firmware/m-p/2730165#M164714</link>
      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;Thanks for reporting this.&amp;nbsp; It looks like it is a recent regression in VMware Workstation 14.x, Fusion 10.x, and ESXi 6.7 which resulted from some performance work we did in our EFI firmware.&amp;nbsp; We'll work on fixing it.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Sorry for the trouble!&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;--&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Darius&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2018 10:58:10 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-Workstation-Pro/Bug-in-UEFI-firmware/m-p/2730165#M164714</guid>
      <dc:creator>dariusd</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2018-05-07T10:58:10Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Bug in UEFI firmware</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-Workstation-Pro/Bug-in-UEFI-firmware/m-p/2730166#M164715</link>
      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;No worries! Thank you for the great product.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;It isn't a blocking issue for me seeing as I was only using it for debugging purposes, but I appreciate it being fixed &lt;img id="smileyhappy" class="emoticon emoticon-smileyhappy" src="https://communities.vmware.com/i/smilies/16x16_smiley-happy.png" alt="Smiley Happy" title="Smiley Happy" /&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2018 11:22:28 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-Workstation-Pro/Bug-in-UEFI-firmware/m-p/2730166#M164715</guid>
      <dc:creator>Wazner</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2018-05-07T11:22:28Z</dc:date>
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