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Curious

Is there a PC test, albeit, a standard test of the firmware which identifies its UEFI32 vs UEFI64 type?

Like the old BIOS of the past 1997-2007, they went through many revisions. 

The same kinds of revisions has happened with UEFI, even though PC technology has been manufacturing consumer 64bit X86 architecture since 2007. And, I know of no PC manufacturer who has made any 32 PCs since 2008. Netbooks was a test market that failed almost immediately after its launch. Yet when Vista & UEFI became mainstream it started as UEFI32 and manufacturers have been advancing to UEFI64. So for ALL 64bit PCs, there exist a combination of old and new UEFI technologies present. And the GRUB2-EFI boot developers have been wrestling/racing to keep up while trying to accommodate the combinations of firmware.

So, I am guessing, that there is some way the the type boot firmware identifies itself at boot.
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Bootloader - by mikey62 - 07-28-2020, 03:02 PM
RE: Bootloader - by longpanda - 07-28-2020, 03:46 PM
RE: Bootloader - by mikey62 - 07-29-2020, 01:14 AM
RE: Bootloader - by awengers44 - 07-29-2020, 07:08 AM
RE: Bootloader - by mikey62 - 07-29-2020, 11:22 AM
RE: Bootloader - by awengers44 - 07-30-2020, 11:13 AM
RE: Bootloader - by mikey62 - 08-21-2020, 05:32 AM
RE: Bootloader - by GCMartin - 08-23-2020, 01:56 PM
RE: Bootloader - by awengers44 - 07-28-2020, 06:29 PM
RE: Bootloader - by GCMartin - 08-23-2020, 04:17 PM

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