Re: [PATCH 0/3] x86_64 EFI runtime service support

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Mon Aug 20 2007 - 13:05:42 EST


Yinghai Lu wrote:
>
> someone told me that EFI PEI will be 32 bit ( for mem etc
> initialization), and after that will be 64 bit, so the Run time
> service will be 64 bit only, and it will only support 64 bit OS with
> EFI. and they have another mode to emulate the legacy BIOS to boot
> 32bit OS.
>

That seems unlikely for e.g. the existing Macs already in the field.

*Sigh.*

-hpa
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