Re: x86_64 EFI support for grub2 ?

[Isaac Dupree]

Bean wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just wonder if anybody is working on x86_64 EFI support ? If none,
> I'd like to add it soon, as it's essential for grub2 to work with
> Apple's 64-bit Intel Mac.

not me, but I'll help you test it, as I have one of those machines 
(currently I'm using a nearly-a-year-old CVS version of grub2 in Apple's 
emulated BIOS mode, rather than using the EFI support which didn't work 
for me at the time).
Is it essential -- or does building an x86 EFI binary work just as well?
(oh, since I'm running a 32-bit Linux on my 64-bit machine right now, 
I'm not sure if I'll actually be a useful tester?)

> BTW, I notice that grub-mkimage for efi convert elf to efi internally,
> how about use the gnu-efi tool chain, this could make it more portable
> between ia32 and x86_64.

Is its license sufficiently compatible?  Is it maintained sufficiently 
(or else, can we take on some of the maintainership burden?)

-Isaac