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Date:   Wed, 10 Feb 2021 16:12:25 +0100
From:   Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>
To:     Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] x86/seves: Support 32-bit boot path and other updates
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Hi Konrad,

On Wed, Feb 10, 2021 at 09:58:35AM -0500, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> What GRUB versions are we talking about (CC-ing Daniel Kiper, who owns
> GRUB).

I think this was about 32-bit GRUB builds used by distributions. I
personally tested it with a kernel which has EFI support disabled, in
this case the OVMF firmware will also boot into the startup_32 boot
path.

> By 'some firmware' we talking SeaBIOS?

No, SeaBIOS is not supported for SEV-ES, only OVMF has handling for #VC
so far.

Regards,

	Joerg