Package: debian-cd Version: 3.1.16 Severity: wishlist Hi,
I have been recently helping a friend to try Debian installation in an ASUS Transformer T100. It is a tablet coupled to a detachable keyboard having a hard disk. It has a 64bit Intel processor, but a 32 bit UEFI and no legacy mode, and this is the first problem we found. Searching the web about this issue, I found that this problem is not only in this particular box, but also appears in other boxes, having Intel Bay Trail 64bit processor, but 32bit UEFI with no legacy support, https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/1341944 Quoting from that Ubuntu bug report -- 8< -- Intel released a new Atom iteration (Bay Trail) in late 2013 and has indicated that they will continue to develop and release Atom CPUs due to consumer market demand. At the time of this filing there are a number of Atom-based tablets and compact laptops/netbooks being actively sold and marketed by major OEMs including Dell, HP, ASUS, and Acer. None of these devices have 64-bit UEFI firmware. It is also important to note that these Atom CPUs are 64-bit, but explicitly require a 32-bit UEFI bootloader. -- >8 -- We are stil doing some blind guesses about how to approach the problem before trying the actual install and started to guess a possible approach with elements from unofficial stuff in http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/efi-development/upload4/ but this makes me wonder if it is possible to have working 32 bit UEFI filesalong with the 64 bit ones in amd64 netinst images, so the image works in 64 bit boxes having either 32 or 64 bit UEFI. There seems to be a non negligible number of boxes needing that. Regards, -- Agustin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
