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"64-bit UEFI understands long mode, which allows applications in the pre-boot execution environment to have direct access to all of the memory using 64-bit addr
by ivanca 13y ago
"64-bit UEFI understands long mode, which allows applications in the pre-boot execution environment to have direct access to all of the memory using 64-bit addressing."
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Extensible_Firmware_Interface http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Extensible_Firmware_Int...
- haberman 13y agoI believe that "long mode" is just the name for the native 64-bit mode of these processors; ie. what you'd normally run 64-bit Linux under, with the MMU enabled.