Re: BUG: Bisection finished: Re: Cannot boot from IA32 system a 64bit x86_64 kernel.

[Mate Kukri <mate.kukri@canonical.com>]

I am not 100% against keeping 32-bit EFI support but there is no
reason to try debugging NX on it, just ifdef it out in GRUB, it is a
broken mess of a platform that won't get better.

On Thu, Sep 4, 2025 at 11:05 AM Tobias Powalowski
<tobias.powalowski@googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> Am 04.09.25 um 11:57 schrieb Mate Kukri:
> > Are you really running on 32-bit IA32 UEFI? Because that is legacy and
> > deprecated and runs with paging disabled and never had nor ever will
> > have NX support.
> >
> > So it should probably have NX compiled out in GRUB anyways, I don't
> > think any UEFI grub maintainers test 32-bit IA32 UEFI these days
> > because it is a dead platform.
> >
> Well there are still some old  boards with such setups out there.
>
> I don't own any of those physically, so my only way to test this for
> archboot is the qemu way.
>
> EDK2 OVMF with qemu-x86_64-system. My project and Arch Linux itself
> supports x86_64 machines from 2007 up to now.
>
> I think some popular Surface or Intel Macs had this combination of
> UEFI-32 and not UEFI-64.
>
> Sure in the future, I'll strip out the UEFI MIX MODE and I don't have to
> care about it anymore.
>
> Best regards
>
> Tobias
>
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