[Date Prev][Date Next] [Thread Prev][Thread Next] [Date Index] [Thread Index]

Re: Intel Core2Duo (T7400)



On 07/11/2007 Jerome BENOIT wrote:
> Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
>> On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 12:05:26AM +0100, Bernd Petrovitsch wrote:
>>> On Tue, 2007-11-06 at 13:35 -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
>>>> On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 06:58:15PM +0100, Jonas Meurer wrote:
>>>>> Do you have any reasons for that suggestion? Which disadvantages does
>>>>> the amd64 port have on system with up to 2GB of RAM?
>>>> A few programs still don't compile or work on 64bit systems (not amd64
>>> Any real-world examples?
>>> Even OpenOffice runs as 64bit since months.
>>> The only which I remember rumors are "grub". But being a bootloader,
>>
>> Grub on Etch amd64 works just fine.
>
> the issue with grub is that it does not yet support EFI64 

Can you point me to some documentation which explains EFI64? I searched
for it with google, but the only real information I got, was that for
booting a EFI64 kernel, the bootloader needs to support it.

What is an EFI64 kernel? Is EFI64 a CPU flag?

greetings,
 jonas



Reply to: