On Sat, Nov 18, 2006 at 09:07:03PM +0200, Dror Levin wrote:
> looking at the kernel source, after constant failures to boot linux on a core 
> 2 imac, has made me understand that only i386 and ia64 support efi booting, 
> but x86_64 does not.
> it makes sense, if you think about it... AFAIK, until the new core 2 imacs 
> were out there was no x86_64 efi pc, so why should the kernel support it?

  Few days ago I played with Intel servers with EM64T Xeons (NetBurst
based). They are x86_64, and motherboard (Intel chipset) utilised EFI.

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