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From: Marco Gerards <mgerards@xs4all.nl>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: x86_64 EFI support for grub2 ?
Date: Sun, 25 May 2008 21:05:32 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87prra9pc3.fsf@xs4all.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ca0f59980805250432u2a98b224of9aa709fc0db6510@mail.gmail.com> (bean123ch@gmail.com's message of "Sun, 25 May 2008 19:32:27 +0800")

Hi,

Bean <bean123ch@gmail.com> writes:

> 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.
>
> 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.

Okuji made this choise.  I do not recall why, you look it up.  But I
assume he had a good reason for this.  Would it be hard to adopt his
work for x86_64?

--
Marco




  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-05-25 19:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-05-25 11:32 x86_64 EFI support for grub2 ? Bean
2008-05-25 15:48 ` Isaac Dupree
2008-05-25 16:29   ` Bean
2008-05-26 13:21     ` Isaac Dupree
2008-05-28 14:15       ` Robert Millan
2008-05-25 16:44   ` Bean
2008-05-26 13:25     ` Isaac Dupree
2008-05-26 14:23       ` Bean
2008-05-26 19:11         ` Isaac Dupree
2008-05-26 19:43           ` Bean
2008-05-27 10:09             ` Isaac Dupree
2008-05-27 10:38               ` Bean
2008-05-27 12:06                 ` Isaac Dupree
2008-05-27 12:23                   ` Bean
2008-05-28 14:17                     ` Robert Millan
2008-05-28 16:27                       ` Vesa Jääskeläinen
2008-05-28 20:15                       ` Isaac Dupree
2008-05-25 19:05 ` Marco Gerards [this message]
2008-05-28 14:20 ` Robert Millan
2008-05-28 14:37   ` Bean

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