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This is a prerequisite for the next OVMF bump. EDK2 removed IA32 support since the 202508 release [0]. [0] tianocore/edk2@1fb88ff
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I don't think removing IA32 support is our only option. I see a few possibilities here:
As long as the maintenance costs aren't too high, my instinct would be to opt for 1. Although I'm no longer involved with ChromeOS Flex, I know that the bootloader is still building both x64 and ia32 variants. The usage of the ia32 variant is low, but not zero. |
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I decided to solve this in #1970 in a pretty simple way. We fix OVMF for IA32 only to the latest stable release. The code change is pretty simple. All future code that needs newer OVMF just uses |
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This is a prerequisite for the next OVMF bump (#1970). EDK2 removed IA32 support
since the 202508 release [0].
[0] tianocore/edk2@1fb88ff
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