On 08/13/2013 11:43 AM, James Bottomley wrote:
>> James, does this address your concerns?
>
> You mean for globally enabling CONFIG_EFI on x86? not really for 32
> bit, you say above it's pretty much unusable; I'd prefer just to enable
> it for 64 bit. As you said in your original post "since EFI now is a
> significant percentage of all systems" but you actually mean EFI64 ...
> EFI32 is a pretty insignificant percentage of all systems.
For better or worse, there will be more.
> Can we actually boot a 32 bit kernel on an EFI64 system? The last time
> I tried on my Secure Boot SDV it wouldn't work; the problem is getting
> someting in the transfer of control path to boot the processor back to
> 32 bit mode.
We can boot with a bootloader in "skip stub" mode; no runtime services
yet. We are working on making it possible to boot via a EFI stub in
assisted mode (still needing a bootloader, but with the boot stub in the
kernel.)
Runtime services will be the last piece, obviously, but even that looks
reasonably doable.
-hpa
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