21/12/13 18:02, intrigeri wrote: > Hi, > > shipping a 64-bit kernel is a pre-requisite for UEFI support, as many > (if not all) 64-bit EFI firmwares don't support booting a 32-bit > kernel, and we won't be supporting any (rare, and mostly obsolete) > 32-bit UEFI hardware. > > The feature/amd64-kernel branch implements this: it replaces our good > old 686-pae kernel with a 64-bit one, and adjusts various pieces of > documentation and the test suite (I've not tested this part yet, still > lacking a suitable setup) accordingly. > > Note that the code bits of this branch have been in experimental for > many weeks now. > > Drawback: possibly some UX degradation inside VirtualBox, see ticket. > But the VirtualBox guest modules have been broken since March, and > anyway it seems obvious to me that if we had to choose between > supporting running Tails as a guest inside VirtualBox, or running it > on UEFI hardware, we would choose the latter.
Agreed. I suppose it's a bit sad, but frankly the only thing I miss from the guest additions is the ability to set a higher resolution than 1024x768. Perhaps we can at least get that to work at some point. > Candidate for 0.23, please review'n'merge into devel. > > Assigned to anonym, who's going to be the RM for 0.23, but it would be > really great if other people did test builds from experimental on > various hardware to ensure it works fine Review passed. I've tested it successfully on the following systems: * An old Pentium M (i686 with PAE) * Two semi-modern x86_64 laptops * VirtualBox (64-bit only) * libvirt/kvm (both 32-bit and x86_64) No issues at all, so I'm pleased and ready to merge, except I'd like an answer to my question below first. > (modulo the broken memory > erasure on shutdown, but that's another story, thanks in advance for > not reporting this again and again). So the plan is that I should merge the branch despite this regression? Cheers! _______________________________________________ tails-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.boum.org/listinfo/tails-dev To unsubscribe from this list, send an empty email to [email protected].
