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SubjectRe: [PATCH] efi: Clarify Kconfig help for EFI_MIXED
Am 14.04.2014 09:15, schrieb Ingo Molnar:
>>> Right, it is really that it is not possible to boot a mixed-mode kernel
>>> on its non-native firmware using the stub, since the stub itself can
>>> only be one way or the other.
>>
>> Yeah, my help text was a bit... unhelpful.
>>
>> CONFIG_EFI_MIXED does not introduce a regression of any sort, you can
>> enable it without worrying about that.
>>
>> All the boot configurations that used to work will continue to work.
>>
>> What I meant to say was that it isn't possible to use the EFI mixed
>> *feature* (booting a 64-bit kernel with 32-bit firmware) with the
>> EFI boot stub - so you can build support into your kernel but
>> there's no way to make the CPU actually execute those code paths.
>
> Same goes for booting a 32-bit kernel on 64-bit firmware, right?
>

It seems that isn't implemented:

config EFI_MIXED
bool "EFI mixed-mode support"
depends on EFI_STUB && X86_64


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