Re: RFC: default CONFIG_EFI_STUB=y

[Matthew Garrett]

On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 11:43:30AM -0700, James Bottomley wrote:

> 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.

In theory, as long as you jump to the 32-bit entry point having already 
set the cpu to that mode. The linux command in grub2 ought to do that.

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