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Michael Shigorin	b6eb7cb732	efi: skip on unsupported target architectures There's a possibility to run into IA32 EFI but that's rather uninteresting hardware (ancient Xeon servers and <s>outdated</s> early Intel Mac laptops). Just drop it on the floor. As x86_64 UEFI support would result in "2D hybrid(r)(tm)" image which boots with all combinations of BIOS/UEFI by CD\|DVD/Flash (or at least should boot), some downgrace seems due: use/efi will turn use/isohybrid on non-x86_64 -- which will require further tweaks on PPC/ARM some day.	2012-12-26 17:07:19 +04:00
Michael Shigorin	5a61e2d4cc	efi: employ mkimage The initial approach required some quite involved postprocessing as described in http://www.altlinux.org/UEFI#HOWTO; after having ironed out the kinks so that initial EFI support could be merged into mkimage proper we're better off just using it, eh?	2012-12-17 14:40:55 +04:00
Michael Shigorin	653b8e1df8	initial EFI support EFI/UEFI is mostly about partitioning and bootloader setup, at least from a distribution's point of view; so the appropriate tools should be handy and firmware interface module should not be exterminated from installer images but get autoloaded instead. Please note that while there exists 32-bit x86 EFI we don't bother with it at the time being: it's relevant to some irrelevant Xeon systems as well as for the older Intel Macs (<2008) that are long out of fashion anyways. That is, initially we deal with x86_64 EFI only.	2012-11-19 23:26:51 +02:00

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Michael Shigorin

b6eb7cb732

efi: skip on unsupported target architectures

There's a possibility to run into IA32 EFI but that's rather
uninteresting hardware (ancient Xeon servers and <s>outdated</s>
early Intel Mac laptops).  Just drop it on the floor.

As x86_64 UEFI support would result in "2D hybrid(r)(tm)" image
which boots with all combinations of BIOS/UEFI by CD|DVD/Flash
(or at least should boot), some downgrace seems due: use/efi will
turn use/isohybrid on non-x86_64 -- which will require further
tweaks on PPC/ARM some day.

2012-12-26 17:07:19 +04:00

Michael Shigorin

5a61e2d4cc

efi: employ mkimage

The initial approach required some quite involved postprocessing
as described in http://www.altlinux.org/UEFI#HOWTO; after having
ironed out the kinks so that initial EFI support could be merged
into mkimage proper we're better off just using it, eh?

2012-12-17 14:40:55 +04:00

Michael Shigorin

653b8e1df8

initial EFI support

EFI/UEFI is mostly about partitioning and bootloader setup,
at least from a distribution's point of view; so the
appropriate tools should be handy and firmware interface
module should not be exterminated from installer images
but get autoloaded instead.

Please note that while there exists 32-bit x86 EFI
we don't bother with it at the time being: it's relevant
to some irrelevant Xeon systems as well as for the older
Intel Macs (<2008) that are long out of fashion anyways.
That is, initially we deal with x86_64 EFI only.

2012-11-19 23:26:51 +02:00

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