Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 07:48:46 -0800 From: David Leimbach <leimy2k@gmail.com> To: Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> Cc: alanbryan1234@yahoo.com, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, julian@elischer.org, "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> Subject: Re: FreeBSD on Intel Macs? Message-ID: <3e1162e60601120748p55e6d77cib782917714c75afb@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <43C674DD.6030506@samsco.org> References: <20060111212605.79848.qmail@web34104.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <43C57A7A.3080802@elischer.org> <3e1162e60601111405x59e7e70dyf57c74b01e888e8a@mail.gmail.com> <20060111.234830.49434547.imp@bsdimp.com> <43C674DD.6030506@samsco.org>
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On 1/12/06, Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> wrote: > M. Warner Losh wrote: > > In message: <3e1162e60601111405x59e7e70dyf57c74b01e888e8a@mail.gmail.co= m> > > 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 Fr= eeBSD. > > : > 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. FYI, the entire first paragraph of the wikipedia article on EFI is pretty much a bunch of crap. At least they flagged it for not being neutral. There's so much misinformation on the www. Wikipedia's like a piece of flypaper for it sometimes. Dave
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