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		Rebelgecko on Aug 27, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: OpenCore Legacy Patcher For newer Intel hardware, 32 bit support would be an issue

userbinator on Aug 27, 2022 [–]

Why would it be? AFAIK the latest x86 CPUs, despite using EFI BIOS, still start off in 16-bit realmode at the reset vector, and most if not all of the BIOS code is going to be 32-bit protected mode code.

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