Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 14:34:00 -0800 From: David Leimbach <leimy2k@gmail.com> To: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> Cc: alan bryan <alanbryan1234@yahoo.com>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD on Intel Macs? Message-ID: <3e1162e60601121434m6666e7c2lf62377f1a79b9fe6@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200601121700.39962.jhb@freebsd.org> 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>
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On 1/12/06, John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> wrote: > > On Thursday 12 January 2006 09:09 am, Doug Rabson wrote: > > On 11 Jan 2006, at 22:05, David Leimbach wrote: > > > 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. > > > > When I wrote the EFI bootloader for ia64, I spent a small amount of > > time trying to make it possible to port to an i386 EFI environment. I > > reckon it would only take a day or two to do the port. If someone > > donates a nice new 20" iMac to me, I'll even do the work :-) > > Same offer here, though dfr@ would probably get it working sooner. :) 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?] Dave
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