Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 08:25:17 -0700 From: Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> To: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> Cc: alanbryan1234@yahoo.com, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, julian@elischer.org, leimy2k@gmail.com Subject: Re: FreeBSD on Intel Macs? Message-ID: <43C674DD.6030506@samsco.org> In-Reply-To: <20060111.234830.49434547.imp@bsdimp.com> References: <20060111212605.79848.qmail@web34104.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <43C57A7A.3080802@elischer.org> <3e1162e60601111405x59e7e70dyf57c74b01e888e8a@mail.gmail.com> <20060111.234830.49434547.imp@bsdimp.com>
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M. Warner Losh wrote: > In message: <3e1162e60601111405x59e7e70dyf57c74b01e888e8a@mail.gmail.com> > David Leimbach <leimy2k@gmail.com> writes: > : On 1/11/06, Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> 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. > > Assuming any DRM or copy protection that apple puts in place allows US > to put a boot loader there in the first place. > > Warner GRRRRRRRRRRRRR Please stop the absolutely baseless conjecture. Scott
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