Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2018 15:22:44 -0600 From: Rebecca Cran <rebecca@bluestop.org> To: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd-rwg@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net>, Greg V <greg@unrelenting.technology> Cc: Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>, Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>, FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD EFI projects Message-ID: <8d0769ac-e2cc-a063-978d-2db9116655b5@bluestop.org> In-Reply-To: <201809191506.w8JF6W10024280@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net> References: <201809191506.w8JF6W10024280@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net>
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On 9/19/18 9:06 AM, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > Yes, that is one of the catagories of rare, a EFI-32 bit system that > was originally shipped with a 32 bit only CPU, that later got upgraded > in the field with a 64 bit CPU, that still runs a EFI-32 bios. > Are you sure the 2007 firmware is EFI32? I would of thought > since they upgraded the base system to a 64 bit CPU they would > of shipped it with a EFI-64 bios. I'm not sure if there's a firmware upgrade for it, but I have a MacBook Pro from around that time that definitely has a 32-bit EFI: it only runs 32-bit binaries, and had a 32-bit version of MacOS X installed despite having a 64-bit Core2Duo CPU. -- Rebecca
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