From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756971Ab1INQIG (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Sep 2011 12:08:06 -0400 Received: from arkanian.console-pimps.org ([212.110.184.194]:56898 "EHLO arkanian.console-pimps.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754662Ab1INQIF (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Sep 2011 12:08:05 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 10/10] x86, efi: EFI boot stub support From: Matt Fleming To: Maarten Lankhorst Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "H. Peter Anvin" , Matthew Garrett , x86@kernel.org, Ingo Molnar , Thomas Gleixner , Mike Waychison , Andi Kleen , Matt Domsch In-Reply-To: <4E6F69A1.9030406@gmail.com> References: <1315838094-2307-1-git-send-email-matt@console-pimps.org> <1315838094-2307-11-git-send-email-matt@console-pimps.org> <4E6F69A1.9030406@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2011 17:07:58 +0100 Message-ID: <1316016478.3466.74.camel@mfleming-mobl1.ger.corp.intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.32.2 (2.32.2-1.fc14) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 2011-09-13 at 16:33 +0200, Maarten Lankhorst wrote: > This version seems to boot for me. Yay! Thanks for testing. > Is it useful to add 32-bits support though? > It seems that only some older versions of OSX use it. I could see if I can > revive my mac mini, iirc it has 32-bits efi, or at least used to have. 32-bit UEFI platforms do exist, so I think it's worth supporting them. > Do I need to pass anything to add it to efibootmgr? > > I tried something like this: > echo "args" | efibootmgr -c -l '\vmlinuz.efi' -L 'Native EFI linux boot' -@ - -u -d /dev/sdb > > And it boots vmlinuz.efi, but the arguments I passed do not appear to > have any effect. No idea, I've never used efibootmgr. Let's add Matt Domsch to the discussion (now Cc'd). -- Matt Fleming, Intel Open Source Technology Center