Bug#524756: please provide a 64bit grub-efi for the i386 distribution

[A Mennucc]

Package: grub-efi
Version: 1.96+20080724-16
Severity: wishlist

hi,

grub-efi , in combination with rEFIt , may be used to
boot an Apple MacBook in "native" way, as to say (that is
w/o using a BIOS compatibility mode).

Depending on the MacBook model, though, grub-efi should
be compiled as a 32bit or a 64bit executable;
for example, the MacBook5,1 (the "aluminium") needs a 64bit grub-efi

This is independent on the architecture of Debian that is installed.

So if someone install Debian Lenny i386
on a MacBook which uses EFI 64bit, then the package grub-efi 
will not work: rEFIt fails to load grub-efi, with error
   Unsupported while loading grub.efi 

So it would be advisable to provide a package grub-efi-64
to ship inside Debian i386

a.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.1
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=it_IT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

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Andrea Mennucc
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