Comment 72 for bug 1025555

I can't really speak to other devices that I don't own and haven't tried Ubuntu on, but on the one I have (Acer Aspire Switch 10), the UEFI intelligently uses the 32-bit Grub EFI if it's there. It's also possible to use the 32-bit Grub EFI with the amd64 images.

My concern is more that in this bug report, multiple devs have made it clear that they have chosen to actively refuse to even consider adding 32-bit EFI support to Ubuntu. At this point, while there may be other issues at play WRT supporting 32-bit EFI on mulltiple different devices (I'll be happy to help test that, btw, I work at a computer store and can test liveCD booting on a variety of 32-bit EFI devices with Atom CPUs), the issue is that (a) there are devs claiming it's impossible to boot an amd64 Ubuntu build on 32-bit EFI (it isn't) and (b) there aren't enough commodity devices with 32-bit EFI to make the effort worthwhile (also false; there are a variety of 32-bit EFI devices with Atom CPUs in the consumer OEM market, and their price point is making them very, very popular with both consumers and businesses).

It seems very short-sighted to flat-out refuse to work on 32-bit EFI support for Ubuntu.