Re: EFI and 32bit vs. 64bit

[Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko]

On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 11:32 PM, Felix Zielcke <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> just talked with a guy from the debian-boot people about using grub-efi
> for the Intel Mac Users.
> Is there any way avaible in Linux to detect somehow if the EFI is 64bit
> or 32bit?
If you EFI-boot linux then its architecture is also the one of efi
(afaik linux doesn't support efi64 with i386 kernel or otherway round)
If it's not the only reasonable way is to use dmidecode's output
(especially ProductName)
> Maybe some list of CPUs which could be grep'ed from /proc/cpuinfo or so?
> I read on refit page that Apple introducted fat binaries, which would
> work on both, but can they actually be created outside of MacOSX?
fat binary is just a concateneting of 2 binaries with an extra header.
So it's quite easy to create one
> Or is there maybe another solution to solve this problem?
>
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> Felix Zielcke
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Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko