Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 1 of 2] Add the support for Xen to include OVMF UEFI support and directly use it

["Jan Beulich" <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>]

>>> Attilio Rao <attilio.rao@xxxxxxxxxx> 02/23/12 11:18 AM >>>
>On 23/02/12 10:07, Ian Campbell wrote:
>> On Wed, 2012-02-22 at 19:17 +0000, Attilio Rao wrote:
>> Can you confirm that you need an OVMF which matches the OS bit-width you
>> are installing. i..e that there is no support for booting a 32 bit EFI
>> OS (or bootloader, shell, whatever it is called) on a 64 bit OVMF?
>
>I didn't test this case, really, but I would think OVMF-64 / OS-32 could 
>possibly work.

Native EFI requires bit-matched OS loaders, and I can't see how OVMF would
be able to get around this (but yes, it is theoretically possible, just that I
doubt anyone cared to implement this).

Jan


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