Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 08:54:06 -0700 From: Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> To: David Leimbach <leimy2k@gmail.com> 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: <43C67B9E.7030306@samsco.org> In-Reply-To: <3e1162e60601120748p55e6d77cib782917714c75afb@mail.gmail.com> 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> <3e1162e60601120748p55e6d77cib782917714c75afb@mail.gmail.com>
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David Leimbach wrote: > On 1/12/06, Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> wrote: > >>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. > > > 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 All I can say to that article is.... wow. Scott
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