(set boot issues aside for now)
It could. I use it on x86 and IA-64 now. I think Richard Hirst found the
last (knock on wood) of my endianness bugs about 6 months ago, so I know it
works on BE and LE non-Intel machines. It's in the partitioning menu, not
specific to arch. The only arch dependency in code is on asm-ia64/efi.h for
some typedefs, which is annoying but not hard to fix if desired (move
relevant bits to include/linux/efi.h).
> For my machines the *only* reason for having a legacy partitioning
> scheme is to allow booting.
As you point out, booting is BIOS-specific. So for now boot a disk with a
native scheme (where your OS resides already) and mount that 64XB file
system for data afterwords. By the time that doesn't work, 32-bit CPUs will
be dead anyhow.
Thanks,
Matt
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