Am Dienstag, den 09.06.2009, 11:58 +0200 schrieb Julien BLACHE: > A Mennucc <[email protected]> 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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
