Johannes Erdfelt wrote:
> >
> > Hah. I'll believe it when I see it.
>
> FWIW, all of the ia64 machines I've seen use EFI for both 64bit and
> 32bit OS'. Since most of the code is written in C, it wouldn't surprise
> me if we start seeing it appear on 32bit machines soon.
>
> We, the ia64 development team, wrote an ELF loader for EFI. I've taken
> the original rudimentary version and extended it, adding more features,
> fixed bugs, etc. It's called ELI and can be found at eli.sourceforge.net.
>
It's different for IA64. I don't expect to see it on 32-bit machines
any time soon, and it is going to be *eons* until it is ubiquitous.
-hpa
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