From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 12 06:50:52 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 E24DC16A41F for ; Thu, 12 Jan 2006 06:50:52 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from imp@bsdimp.com) Received: from harmony.bsdimp.com (vc4-2-0-87.dsl.netrack.net [199.45.160.85]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F0ECD43D46 for ; Thu, 12 Jan 2006 06:50:44 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from imp@bsdimp.com) Received: from localhost (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1] (may be forged)) by harmony.bsdimp.com (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id k0C6mKka017841; Wed, 11 Jan 2006 23:48:20 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from imp@bsdimp.com) Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 23:48:30 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <20060111.234830.49434547.imp@bsdimp.com> To: leimy2k@gmail.com From: "M. Warner Losh" In-Reply-To: <3e1162e60601111405x59e7e70dyf57c74b01e888e8a@mail.gmail.com> References: <20060111212605.79848.qmail@web34104.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <43C57A7A.3080802@elischer.org> <3e1162e60601111405x59e7e70dyf57c74b01e888e8a@mail.gmail.com> X-Mailer: Mew version 3.3 on Emacs 21.3 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.0 (harmony.bsdimp.com [127.0.0.1]); Wed, 11 Jan 2006 23:48:22 -0700 (MST) Cc: alanbryan1234@yahoo.com, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org, julian@elischer.org 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: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 06:50:53 -0000 In message: <3e1162e60601111405x59e7e70dyf57c74b01e888e8a@mail.gmail.com> David Leimbach writes: : On 1/11/06, Julian Elischer 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