From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 12 21:59:57 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 7156F16A420 for ; Thu, 12 Jan 2006 21:59:57 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jhb@freebsd.org) Received: from speedfactory.net (mail6.speedfactory.net [66.23.216.219]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B05B743D49 for ; Thu, 12 Jan 2006 21:59:56 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jhb@freebsd.org) Received: from server.baldwin.cx (unverified [66.23.211.162]) by speedfactory.net (SurgeMail 3.5b3) with ESMTP id 5922082 for multiple; Thu, 12 Jan 2006 16:58:23 -0500 Received: from localhost (john@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by server.baldwin.cx (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k0CLxswK086808; Thu, 12 Jan 2006 16:59:54 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jhb@freebsd.org) From: John Baldwin To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 17:00:37 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.2 References: <20060111212605.79848.qmail@web34104.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <3e1162e60601111405x59e7e70dyf57c74b01e888e8a@mail.gmail.com> <8A950BCD-B725-42DD-A82D-8FE2191C3AD0@nlsystems.com> In-Reply-To: <8A950BCD-B725-42DD-A82D-8FE2191C3AD0@nlsystems.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200601121700.39962.jhb@freebsd.org> X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.87.1/1239/Thu Jan 12 06:36:22 2006 on server.baldwin.cx X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.4 required=4.2 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=failed version=3.1.0 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.0 (2005-09-13) on server.baldwin.cx X-Server: High Performance Mail Server - http://surgemail.com r=1653887525 Cc: alan bryan , Julian Elischer , David Leimbach 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 21:59:57 -0000 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 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. :) -- John Baldwin <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" = http://www.FreeBSD.org