From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 12 14:09:46 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9964916A41F for ; Thu, 12 Jan 2006 14:09:46 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Received: from mail.qubesoft.com (gate.qubesoft.com [217.169.36.34]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA43043D58 for ; Thu, 12 Jan 2006 14:09:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Received: from [10.201.19.245] (doug02.dyn.qubesoft.com [10.201.19.245]) by mail.qubesoft.com (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id k0CE9LvD023192; Thu, 12 Jan 2006 14:09:21 GMT (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) In-Reply-To: <3e1162e60601111405x59e7e70dyf57c74b01e888e8a@mail.gmail.com> References: <20060111212605.79848.qmail@web34104.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <43C57A7A.3080802@elischer.org> <3e1162e60601111405x59e7e70dyf57c74b01e888e8a@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v746.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <8A950BCD-B725-42DD-A82D-8FE2191C3AD0@nlsystems.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Doug Rabson Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 14:09:18 +0000 To: David Leimbach X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.746.2) X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.8 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=failed version=3.0.4 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.4 (2005-06-05) on mail.qubesoft.com X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.86.2/1239/Thu Jan 12 11:36:22 2006 on mail.qubesoft.com X-Virus-Status: Clean Cc: alan bryan , freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Julian Elischer Subject: Re: FreeBSD on Intel Macs? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 14:09:46 -0000 On 11 Jan 2006, at 22:05, David Leimbach wrote: > On 1/11/06, Julian Elischer wrote: >> >> alan bryan wrote: >> >>> I read that the new Intel (x86) Macs use EFI rather >>> than the traditional PC Bios to boot up. I'm >>> interested in using one of these to multiboot OS X and >>> FreeBSD and am wondering if it is yet known to work or >>> not. Do any changes need to be made to FreeBSD or >>> should it work out of the box? Thanks for any insight >>> and I know that it may be impossible to fully answer >>> until people get their hands on the hardware but I >>> just wanted to start thinking about the possibilities. >>> >>> >> well if they can boot Darwin I'm sure they can be hacked to boot >> FreeBSD. >> It would probabty require a different bootloader binary. > > > > I don't see what booting Darwin has to do with booting FreeBSD. > > However, since FreeBSD boots on IA64 using the FreeBSD bootloader > for IA64, > I *hope* it won't be much work to port whatever changes that > requires to > IA32. When I wrote the EFI bootloader for ia64, I spent a small amount of time trying to make it possible to port to an i386 EFI environment. I reckon it would only take a day or two to do the port. If someone donates a nice new 20" iMac to me, I'll even do the work :-)