On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 11:48 PM, Isaac Dupree <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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?)
I have tried the old ia32 image created by grub-mkimage, it doesn't work, neither does the old refit (<0.10). New refit create fat image containing both ia32 and x86_64, it works, but don't know how compatible it is in non Apple firmware. I also write a pure x86_64 sample, it works as well. > >> 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?) I'm no expert on license, but it's a shared library, we only need to use its interface, I guess this should be ok. -- Bean _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
