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

Julien BLACHE jblache at debian.org
Tue Jun 9 09:58:08 UTC 2009


A Mennucc <debdev at tonelli.sns.it> wrote:

> IMHO instead amd64 is to be preferred, since it is the official 
> Debian name for that kind of architecture, and there are already many 
> packages in Debian that contain 'amd64' in their name

Except we're not talking about binaries running on the system but
binaries running in the EFI environment. And that platform in that
environment is named x64.

JB.

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