From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 12 22:34:02 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 7C47E16A41F for ; Thu, 12 Jan 2006 22:34:02 +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 9824543D45 for ; Thu, 12 Jan 2006 22:34:01 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from leimy2k@gmail.com) Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 9so511355nzo for ; Thu, 12 Jan 2006 14:34:01 -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:references; b=jIYfjM0Plp6rIE5j+rMYqXta3ApJqZSa01m5yDFfkFaWEoZLGydN6RiVy8pPKrEBFuNdGj5A71/xpRooc3zvfCnAr2Fj4G8nJV6mm5psm9rXELzo01UGnamGDN72Lw60mlas4/a6nrrMO0n1mhLCTf/9fJ3twmWmPVfHoMwbJd4= Received: by 10.36.135.18 with SMTP id i18mr2152022nzd; Thu, 12 Jan 2006 14:34:00 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.36.46.13 with HTTP; Thu, 12 Jan 2006 14:34:00 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <3e1162e60601121434m6666e7c2lf62377f1a79b9fe6@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 14:34:00 -0800 From: David Leimbach To: John Baldwin In-Reply-To: <200601121700.39962.jhb@freebsd.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 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> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: alan bryan , freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Julian Elischer 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 22:34:02 -0000 On 1/12/06, John Baldwin 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 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