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

[Felix Zielcke]

Am Dienstag, den 09.06.2009, 11:58 +0200 schrieb Julien BLACHE:
> 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.

Well we decided now to just stick with -amd64
Maybe ftpmasters decide different when it hits NEW.

Maybe Intel and Microsoft call it x64, but AMD introduced the
Architecture first with the name x86-64 and then switched to amd64.
All binaries for grub2, (runtime + EFI modules) are normally compiled
with gcc -m64 like any other binary in Debian for the amd64
Architecture.
So the EFI runtime environment isn't different in the CPU Architecture
it uses then amd64
It would be really strange if it would, the 64bit Core 2 Duo CPUs which
Apple uses in their EFI Intel-Macs aren't that different then an
Athlon64.

-- 
Felix Zielcke