From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 13 15:50:38 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 DF1F016A41F for ; Fri, 13 Jan 2006 15:50:38 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from leimy2k@gmail.com) Received: from zproxy.gmail.com (zproxy.gmail.com [64.233.162.201]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6860B43D48 for ; Fri, 13 Jan 2006 15:50:38 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from leimy2k@gmail.com) Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 9so662813nzo for ; Fri, 13 Jan 2006 07:50:38 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=Kq9q9uuSXQ0Hjc02KHZzWU8SgR8qgY+G4yW2dK5Nc9yWcHiknyhAe/C3X0m1X3k9b2xq4hihlusTM8Ay1B0Id8Fmys5LWt2WnlCRFa3yf7fXHIh2ji4pb8tU7XVt2DuzDDjv5BYB6mZArhP80arO21K+Rqn7lzQ9DXKGRwXEVr0= Received: by 10.37.18.13 with SMTP id v13mr2585446nzi; Fri, 13 Jan 2006 07:50:37 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.36.46.13 with HTTP; Fri, 13 Jan 2006 07:50:37 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <3e1162e60601130750j53bc3842q1d22e9fc9652d91d@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 07:50:37 -0800 From: David Leimbach To: "Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC" In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <20060111212605.79848.qmail@web34104.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <3e1162e60601111405x59e7e70dyf57c74b01e888e8a@mail.gmail.com> <8A950BCD-B725-42DD-A82D-8FE2191C3AD0@nlsystems.com> <200601121700.39962.jhb@freebsd.org> <3e1162e60601121434m6666e7c2lf62377f1a79b9fe6@mail.gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD Current 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: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 15:50:39 -0000 On 1/12/06, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: > > On Jan 12, 2006, at 3:34 PM, David Leimbach wrote: > > > > I might be picking one up this week... not sure yet. So conflicted > > over > > that or waiting to see what the new used to be a PowerMac will be. > > [Do I > > really want the mobile processor?] > > Question is do you want to wait for 6-12 months or want one now. The > pro desktop is most likely not going to be available until the end of > the year time frame... > > Chad > > True and by then I'll have more money anyway... For interested parties here is a really good overview of EFI http://www.kernelthread.com/publications/firmware/ This is from the same author who gave a really great tour of the Darwin OS. I wonder if the FreeBSD partitioning tools will be able to make non MBR partitions or if we'd have to have some kind of legacy mode for that. Also this article mentions that there is a Gateway media center PC already on EFI [at least it's EFI based...]. People who don't want to pay Apple's prices might find an alternative system there. I don't know anything about it though beyond this article. Dave