Hi, shipping a 64-bit kernel is a pre-requisite for UEFI support, as many (if not all) 64-bit EFI firmwares don't support booting a 32-bit kernel, and we won't be supporting any (rare, and mostly obsolete) 32-bit UEFI hardware.
The feature/amd64-kernel branch implements this: it replaces our good old 686-pae kernel with a 64-bit one, and adjusts various pieces of documentation and the test suite (I've not tested this part yet, still lacking a suitable setup) accordingly. Note that the code bits of this branch have been in experimental for many weeks now. Drawback: possibly some UX degradation inside VirtualBox, see ticket. But the VirtualBox guest modules have been broken since March, and anyway it seems obvious to me that if we had to choose between supporting running Tails as a guest inside VirtualBox, or running it on UEFI hardware, we would choose the latter. Candidate for 0.23, please review'n'merge into devel. Assigned to anonym, who's going to be the RM for 0.23, but it would be really great if other people did test builds from experimental on various hardware to ensure it works fine (modulo the broken memory erasure on shutdown, but that's another story, thanks in advance for not reporting this again and again). Cheers, -- intrigeri | GnuPG key @ https://gaffer.ptitcanardnoir.org/intrigeri/intrigeri.asc | OTR fingerprint @ https://gaffer.ptitcanardnoir.org/intrigeri/otr.asc _______________________________________________ tails-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.boum.org/listinfo/tails-dev
