On Wed, Jun 18, 2025 at 12:34:53PM +0200, Thorsten Glaser wrote: >On Wed, 18 Jun 2025, Simon McVittie wrote: >> On Thu, 27 Jun 2024 at 12:16:06 +0000, Thorsten Glaser wrote: >>> Might want to note this on amd64 as well, for those >>> 64-bit systems with 32-bit EFI. >> >> I think this is the only thing that might possibly benefit from >> documenting separately - although as Steve said, amd64 systems with >> 32-bit EFI are rare, so perhaps it isn't worth it. > >As my first EFI system is currently on the way to me (new work >laptop) I researched EFI on Debian a little, and there’s tons of >documentation where this is mentioned and specifically how proud >Debian is of supporting this since version X (squeeze IIRC), so >I’d at least put it into the release notes.
Right. We *were* the first(/only?) distro to make this work back in the day, but there's only a very few systems that ever supported it: mostly cheap Bay Trail devices and some very old Macs. But yes, it doesn't hurt to call this out in the release notes here. The Macs never supported UEFI SB, but maybe people will have it on Bay Trail systems if those systems haven't died already. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. st...@einval.com "I've only once written 'SQL is my bitch' in a comment. But that code is in use on a military site..." -- Simon Booth
