I am not 100% against keeping 32-bit EFI support but there is no reason to try debugging NX on it, just ifdef it out in GRUB, it is a broken mess of a platform that won't get better.
On Thu, Sep 4, 2025 at 11:05 AM Tobias Powalowski <tobias.powalow...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > Am 04.09.25 um 11:57 schrieb Mate Kukri: > > Are you really running on 32-bit IA32 UEFI? Because that is legacy and > > deprecated and runs with paging disabled and never had nor ever will > > have NX support. > > > > So it should probably have NX compiled out in GRUB anyways, I don't > > think any UEFI grub maintainers test 32-bit IA32 UEFI these days > > because it is a dead platform. > > > Well there are still some old boards with such setups out there. > > I don't own any of those physically, so my only way to test this for > archboot is the qemu way. > > EDK2 OVMF with qemu-x86_64-system. My project and Arch Linux itself > supports x86_64 machines from 2007 up to now. > > I think some popular Surface or Intel Macs had this combination of > UEFI-32 and not UEFI-64. > > Sure in the future, I'll strip out the UEFI MIX MODE and I don't have to > care about it anymore. > > Best regards > > Tobias > > -- > Tobias Powalowski > Arch Linux Developer (tpowa) > https://www.archlinux.org > tp...@archlinux.org > > Archboot Developer > https://archboot.com > > St. Martin-Apotheke > Herzog-Georg-Str. 25 > 89415 Lauingen > https://www.st-martin-apo.de > i...@st-martin-apo.de > _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
