Re: x86_64 EFI support for grub2 ?

[Isaac Dupree]

Bean wrote:
> > [rEFIt] "Version 0.10 (June 14, 2007):
> >    * Supports the new "Santa Rosa" generation of MacBook Pro models.
> >    * All binaries built as "fat" 32-bit and 64-bit. (May not work on
> > non-Apple EFI firmwares.)" http://refit.sourceforge.net/history.html
>
> That must be it. I can't use refit < 0.10.

hmm. in which case, I wonder, it may only be possible for me to test 
32-bits EFI images -- but we'll see.  That could still be a useful thing 
to be able to test.

> > But we (GRUB) aren't refit -- we just need to know that we can't use that
> > kind of multi-arch image to support all x86 and x86-64 EFI platforms.
>
> Yes, we can't create multi-arch image. We need to maintain them
> seperately, i386-efi and x86_64-efi.

are we unable to (because refit uses the MacOS X toolchain (?) and we 
don't), or we just have no interest in doing so (because installers can 
have the smarts of figuring out which arch the firmware expects for the 
image?)
?

-Isaac