[arch-releng] [RFC][PATCH][v2] [configs/releng] Add 32-bit EFI support

Thomas Bächler thomas at archlinux.org
Fri Mar 10 18:59:54 UTC 2017


Am 07.03.2017 um 16:50 schrieb Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi via arch-releng:
> Support booting 64-bit Linux, from 32-bit EFI firmware.
> 
> Only tested on qemu with ovmf, does not work at all.
> cdrom mode: qemu stop with bad instruction address
> hybrid mode: qemu just freeze at tianocore logo with a upper pixed dot.

Are you sure you want to use syslinux for this? I tried this once with
efilinux and had some success, but some problems as well. I am just
asking because my experience with syslinux and EFI was very bad.

Is this even a use case? What kind of machines come with 32 bit EFI?


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