Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 14:13:40 -0800 From: David Leimbach <leimy2k@gmail.com> To: Jung-uk Kim <jkim@freebsd.org> Cc: alan bryan <alanbryan1234@yahoo.com>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD on Intel Macs? Message-ID: <3e1162e60601131413r47439165ub72e368fef139e0e@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200601131512.30195.jkim@FreeBSD.org> References: <20060111212605.79848.qmail@web34104.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <200601131512.30195.jkim@FreeBSD.org>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On 1/13/06, Jung-uk Kim <jkim@freebsd.org> wrote: > On Wednesday 11 January 2006 04:26 pm, 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. > > If it has something called CSM, it should be able to boot FreeBSD: > > http://www.apcmag.com/apc/v3.nsf/0/64E7EA353646669ECA2570F50012430B > > In fact, Intel has been using EFI on recent motherboards such as > SE7520AF2: > > http://www.intel.com/design/servers/boards/se7520af2/index.htm > > They didn't say it on the web page but it does have EFI. > > If the Apple hardware doesn't have CSM, then we have to make > 'EFI-aware' boot loader chain and add EFI interface (instead of vm86 > bios calls) to i386 kernel. :-( > > Jung-uk Kim > > PS: Sorry to bring up Linux here but Linux won't have the problem > because Intel has added EFI support for i386: > > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=3Dlinux-kernel&m=3D105848983307228&w=3D2 > > and EFI LILO (for both i386 and ia64) is here: > > http://elilo.sourceforge.net/ > > Just FYI... The linux 2.6.x kernels have support for EFI as well. I'm not sure how much help ELILO really needs to provide anymore as a result. dave
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?3e1162e60601131413r47439165ub72e368fef139e0e>